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Series 23
Nano Sharks
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain discover that sharks could help us invent faster cars
31 May 2025,·29 mins
What on earth is quantum?
A CrowdScience guide to quantum physics
30 May 2025,·30 mins
Your science questions answered
We answer a selection of fascinating science questions, from Nikola Tesla to microplastics
29 May 2025,·28 mins
1. Hardware
Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world.
17 Feb 2021,·60 mins
Thirteen months to a chip off the moon
China’s audacious Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is underway
29 May 2025,·35 mins
Mission unexpectedly possible
Turning lead into gold, talking to animals and time travel seem impossible but are they?
30 May 2025,·51 mins
Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution
Professor Tim Coulson on how the wolves of Yellowstone National Park shape the ecosystem.
27 May 2025,·28 mins
Why Is AI Stealing Books?
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong find out why AI is stealing books.
28 May 2025,·30 mins
How does heat affect our health?
Why is it so hard to understand the effects a warming world has on our health?
24 May 2025,·49 mins
A new way to screen for cancer in dense breasts
Research finds screening methods to pick up cancer in dense breasts much earlier
28 May 2025,·26 mins
Can nature help us to store carbon?
Could we put carbon dioxide in rocks or seaweed to help fight climate change?
01 Jun 2025,·22 mins
The digital afterlife business
Using AI chatbots to recreate the voice or likeness of a loved one who has ed away.
27 May 2025,·26 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 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
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
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
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
Responding to AI
Adam Walton explores UK research on artificial intelligence
27 May 2025,·29 mins
Unstoppable: Inge Lehmann
How seismologist Inge Lehmann rewrote geophysics by discovering Earth’s inner core
12 May 2025,·28 mins
Dr Mark Lythgoe investigates the science of erasing memories.
20 Jul 2011,·30 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Water in Space
First broadcast in 2003. A look at the search for liquid water on Mars
22 Apr 2003,·12 mins
Omnibus: 1980s onwards
From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
17 Mar 2017,·58 mins
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,·32 mins
Born Different
Adam Rutherford asks what the genetics of intelligence could mean for education.
13 May 2014,·28 mins
Series 4
Strontium
Chemist Andrea Sella ends his festive series with fireworks and the element strontium.
27 Dec 2019,·14 mins
Military Eyes in the Sky
How satellites are being used in warfare for target recognition
07 Oct 2002,·13 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
