BBC Inside Science

BBC Inside Science

A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.

BBC Inside Science

Episodes (524 available)

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, Should we rethink navigating by GPS?

GPS is vulnerable to interference, so how can we make navigating at sea safer?

29 Jan 2026

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, How is air travel returning to supersonic speeds?

50 years since Concorde’s first commercial flight, is aviation going supersonic again?

22 Jan 2026

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, Why is Nasa sending people around the moon?

Nasa’s Artemis II rocket is about to be rolled out. What is the mission hoping to achieve?

15 Jan 2026

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, 08/01/2026

A weekly programme looking at the science that's changing our world.

8 Jan 2026

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, How did President Trump transform science in 2025?

President Trump continues to shake up science. We look at the impact it’s already having.

18 Dec 2025

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire?

New evidence shows that early neanderthals made fire 350 thousand years before we thought.

11 Dec 2025

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, A 'functional' cure for HIV?

Almost four decades after the first HIV treatment, is there finally a ‘functional’ cure?

4 Dec 2025

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, Why aren’t gene therapies more common?

Three decades since the first successful gene therapy, why aren’t we using them more?

27 Nov 2025

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations?

As COP 30 draws to close in Brazil, we speak to a former negotiator.

20 Nov 2025

26 mins

BBC Inside Science, BBC Inside Science, Could technology replace animal testing in science?

The UK government plans to phase out animal experiments. What are the alternatives?

13 Nov 2025

26 mins

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