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Your science questions answered
We answer a selection of fascinating science questions, from Nikola Tesla to microplastics
29 May 2025,·30 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
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
Series 23
Nano Sharks
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain discover that sharks could help us invent faster cars
31 May 2025,·29 mins
Why Is AI Stealing Books?
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong find out why AI is stealing books.
28 May 2025,·30 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 eating honey help save bees?
Bee populations are declining - could eating honey help them?
23 May 2025,·26 mins
Mission unexpectedly possible
Turning lead into gold, talking to animals and time travel seem impossible but are they?
30 May 2025,·51 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
Responding to AI
Adam Walton explores UK research on artificial intelligence
27 May 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
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
Can the past teach us how to fight climate change?
Why farmers around the world are bringing back ancient crops - and ancient animals!
25 May 2025,·22 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
Unstoppable: Inge Lehmann
How seismologist Inge Lehmann rewrote geophysics by discovering Earth’s inner core
12 May 2025,·28 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
The Rich Multilingual World
How learning and speaking another language enriches our lives
25 Mar 1995,·28 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 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
Omnibus: 1980s onwards
From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
17 Mar 2017,·58 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
A Wonderful Catastrophe
How can we cope with the challenges of digital communication?
12 Jul 2024,·14 mins
Microwaves
Amit Katwala and Charlotte Stavrou power up the microwave and find out what's cooking.
21 Sep 2023,·24 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
Insects and mobile phone
Smart phones could become even smarter – thanks to ants, beetles, moths and spiders!
17 Jan 2022,·20 mins
Good Foods Guide 2: 12
First broadcast in 2001. A survey of foods used in celebrations around the world
09 Mar 2001,·13 mins
Doing the Maths
First broadcast in 2006. The mathematics of infinity are discussed
27 Sep 2006,·22 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
