BBC Inside Science
Episodes
Whales from space; Flood emails; SUYI JET Lasers; CERN's new tunnel; Discoveries exhibition
13 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Whales from Space. Scientists have demonstrated how new satellite technology can be used to count whales, and ultimately estimate their population siz...
Engineering for floods; Neanderthal genes; Switching senses; Genes in Space game
06 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The warning that floods are likely to become more common, or more severe, won't be a high priority for those with homes currently deluged. But it is s...
Neanderthals; Plague; Wind Tunnel; Music Timing; Stem Cells
30 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We now know that Neanderthals and our ancestors interbred over 40,000 years ago. Recent research has shown that most people of European or East Asian ...
Higgs Boson; Neutrinos; Antarctic echo locator; Rainforest fungi; Alabama rot
23 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Higgs boson has been discovered, providing the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle for the Standard Model of particle physics, a description of how t...
Personal genetics kits; Persister cells; Earthquake mapping; Scorpions
16 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
For a couple of hundred quid, one of many companies will send you a kit for sampling your own genome, and most will tell you your genetic risk for som...
Antarctica weather and climate change; GM Fish Oils; Melanin Fossils; Time Travel
09 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists following in the footsteps of Edwardian explorer, Douglas Mawson, have been trapped in pack ice in the Antarctic. The Chinese vessel that c...
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
06 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The ancient inhabitants of Britain; when did they get here? Who were they? And how do we know? Alice Roberts meets some of the AHOB team, who have bee...
Bacteriophages; Breath-detecting disease; Our bees electric and DNA Barcoding
26 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Alice Roberts talks bacteriophages: viruses that infect the bacteria that infect us. With the rise of antibiotic resistance they are a poten...
Antimicrobial soap; GAIA; Stone-age jellybones; Antarctica
19 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Antibacterial soaps and body washes make up an industry worth millions of pounds, but in the USA, producers have been told that they have just over a ...
Horsemeat; NanoSims; Early bacteria; Crystallography
12 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Food crime is now big business that criss crosses national boundaries, according to today's report into the safety and authenticity of our food. Publi...
Badger culls; Douglas Mawson; Plastics; Uptalk
05 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Badger culls in England have ended and Professor Roland Kao from the University of Glasgow discusses with Dr Adam Rutherford the scientific options re...
Therapeutic hypothermia; Cameras on Gaia; Methane; Wine microbiota
28 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Therapeutic hypothermia is standard treatment for cardiac arrest patients to protect against the damaging or deadly repercussions of a beatless heart....
Bird Atlas; Flywheels; Energy capture; Science lessons for MPs
21 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Every twenty years there's a detailed survey of the birds of the UK and Ireland and today, the 2007-2011 Bird Atlas is published. Adam Rutherford hear...
DNA to ID typhoon victims; Volcanic ash; Hope for red squirrels; Robogut
14 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Global experts in DNA identification are flying to the Philippines to assess whether they can help families to determine, beyond doubt, which of the h...
Personal genome; Solar cells and music; Asteroids; Alfred Russel Wallace
07 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A hundred thousand Britons are being asked to donate their sequenced DNA, their personal genome, to a vast database on the internet, so scientists can...
Moon dust; Electro-ceuticals; Soil and climate change; Dogs' tails
31 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A NASA spacecraft the size of a sofa is currently orbiting the Moon, gathering information about the toxic perils of moon dust. Dirt from the moon is ...
Nuclear Waste; Exoplanets; BBC time and pips, Synthetic Biology Olympics
24 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Britain's legacy of nuclear waste dates back 60 plus years and a long term solution to deal with it hasn't yet been found. After this week's announcem...
Genetics and education; Golden Rice inventor; Chimp Chatter and Lightning Lab
17 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The link between genetics and a child's academic performance hit the headlines this week when Education Secretary, Michael Gove's outgoing special adv...
US shutdown; Nobels; New climate science; Airport heart attack headlines
10 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The US has shut down government science with potentially devastating results for American and international science projects. Many individual scientis...
Menopause; IPCC; Fracking feedback; Particle accelerator; Zombie chemicals
03 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adam Rutherford and guests explore the scientific mysteries of the menopause after scientists in the US and Japan successfully induced pregnancy in...
Fracking FAQs; Fingerprint feedback; Lipstick forensics; Snake hook
26 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Fracking is touted as a technology that will lower UK energy bills. It's a controversial technique which unlocks natural gas from shale rock. But it r...
Chemical weapons; Crowd-sourcing weather; Fingerprint ID; Dino drill
19 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As Syria agrees to destroying its chemical weapon stocks, Adam Rutherford looks at how you solve a problem like Sarin. Dr Joanna Kidd from King's Coll...
Stem cell news; Science practicals; Phantom head; Sewage power
12 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As Spanish researchers unveil new stem cell research, Dr Adam Rutherford talks to Professor of Regenerative Medicine Fiona Watt. They look back at the...
Fukushima ice wall; Martian menus; Science practicals; Eye tracker
05 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adam Rutherford asks whether the proposed ice wall around the Fukushima nuclear plant will finally halt the radioactive leaks they've suffered sinc...
Research bias; Sniffer dogs; Lasers; Roadkill
29 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Science is supposed to be objective. Research by Professor John Ioannidis suggests the reality is falling short of the ideal. He talks to Alice Robert...
Artificial reefs; Scanning beehives; Ape feet; NMR
22 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Alice Roberts goes Inside Science this week to discuss the science behind artificial reefs. The 70 concrete blocks around Gibraltar are currently...
Universal flu vaccine; Science games; AllTrials; Penguin camera
15 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Influenza causes up to five million cases of severe illness and half a million deaths globally every year. Yet, as Adam Rutherford finds out, our curr...
Lab-grown leather; Goal line technology; Bacteria outrage; Marine buoy
08 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cultured meat was on the menu earlier this week, but Mark Post's public tasting of his lab-grown burger marks the culmination of decades of research o...
Crash risk; Mary Rose bacteria; History of Science; Greenwich telescope
01 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
July has seen train crashes in Canada, Pakistan, France, Spain and Switzerland. Inside Science asks if this is a trend or just a coincidence. Professo...
2D supermaterials; Inside an MRI; Antarctic architecture
25 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nobel Prize and - as of this week, Copley Medal - winner Andre Geim outlined in Nature today his vision for the next generation of super-materials. Ch...
Animal research; Astronaut selection; Show us your instrument
18 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week saw the publication of the annual government statistics on scientific research on animals. Overall, it again shows an increase, but does tha...
Bioscience to bioweapons; Synthetic diamonds; Stem cell transplants
11 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists investigate viruses in order to save lives. But could that same knowledge also help other people create dangerous viruses to use as weapons...
Bovine TB; Coral sunscreen; Space junk
04 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Today the government announced a plan to rid England of bovine TB within 25 years. Adam Rutherford looks back at how this issue has evolved and the ex...