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Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want
Pratibha Gai on her microscope that brought chemical reactions into sharp focus.
10 Jun 2025,·30 mins
Series 23
Colossal Creatures
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain attempt to design the biggest creature that's ever lived
07 Jun 2025,·28 mins
What’s that background hum I hear?
We explore the science behind hums – phenomena of persistent, low noise
06 Jun 2025,·28 mins
Can science save our oceans?
Inside Science heads to the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, .
05 Jun 2025,·28 mins
China's booming EV industry
In China, electric cars ed for almost half of all car sales last year.
10 Jun 2025,·26 mins
Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?
What is Fusarium graminearum and why were scientists allegedly smuggling it into the US?
05 Jun 2025,·44 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Could the oceans help us save our planet?
David Attenborough is urging the world to fix our oceans. Might that fix the climate too?
08 Jun 2025,·22 mins
Gaming-inspired science
The Nintendo Switch 2 has sent us on a supersonic spin into gaming-related science
06 Jun 2025,·49 mins
What Do I Do if AI Gets Me Wrong?
What can you do if an AI is making stuff up about you? Aleks and Kevin find out.
04 Jun 2025,·28 mins
Exercise and immunotherapy improving cancer outcomes
The impact exercise and a new immunotherapy drug regime is having for cancer patients.
04 Jun 2025,·26 mins
How does heat affect our health?
Why is it so hard to understand the effects a warming world has on our health?
03 Jun 2025,·49 mins
Celebrating Merthyr Tydfil
The Merthyr born or based scientists at the forefront of amazing research.
11 Jun 2025,·29 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
24 May 2025,·49 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.07 Resurrection
"I still have nightmares about this." Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entry?
08 Jun 2020,·60 mins
3. Anywhere
Nick Baker with more programmes about how technology has changed our physical world.
03 Mar 2021,·60 mins
Series 1
Sleep Deprivation and Insomnia
If we don't snooze, we lose. How badly does lack of sleep affect our mind and our body?
19 Dec 2017,·28 mins
Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence
Can we change violent minds?
In her final Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if we can change violent minds.
17 Dec 2024,·57 mins
AI: A Future for Humans?
The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
22 Dec 2021,·28 mins
Doing the Maths
First broadcast in 2006. The mathematics of infinity are discussed
27 Sep 2006,·22 mins
The Hunting of The Quark
First broadcast in 1997. Inside protons and neutrons lurks the holy grail of physics
10 Dec 1997,·13 mins
Update from the Digital Human Team
The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI
19 Feb 2024,·1 min
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,·32 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
Series 4
Strontium
Chemist Andrea Sella ends his festive series with fireworks and the element strontium.
27 Dec 2019,·14 mins
The Tower of London
The greatest traitors were held and executed in The Tower of London
01 Jun 1998,·13 mins
Memory
Examination into the condition of Alzheimer's disease
15 May 2000,·24 mins
Insects and mobile phone
Smart phones could become even smarter – thanks to ants, beetles, moths and spiders!
17 Jan 2022,·20 mins
