Key scientific witnesses including former Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty are called to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. The BBC’s Jim Reed brings us his three key moments from the evidence heard over the past few days that have been dubbed “science week”.
NASA has managed to let loose a tool kit in the Earth’s orbit -- and you can even see it in the night sky with binoculars. Lucinda King explains how this is possible and if space junk is getting out of control.
The United Nations has warned we’re heading towards 3 degrees warming and another Conference of the Parties, known as COP, is about to take place. The BBC’s Georgina Rannard reminds us there is still hope for our planet to curb global warming.
The winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize was announced on Wednesday night. It’s Ed Yong for his book ‘An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us’. Marnie Chesterton was at the ceremony and nabbed Ed as well as Chair of the Judges Alain Goriely to find out what made this book the winner.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Harrison Lewis, Hannah Robins and Louise Orchard Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.
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Hyabusa mission; ProtoDUNE neutrino detector; Caledonian crow skills; Koala microbiome
The Large Hadron Collider Upgrade, Voltaglue, Cambridge Zoology Museum, Francis Willughby
Antarctic melt speeds up, Antarctica's future, Cryo-acoustics, Narwhals
Dinosaur auction, Who owns the genes of the ocean life, Cancer immunotherapy
Hay Festival
CO2 and rice, Underground farming, Ancient interstellar asteroid, Microplastics air pollution
Face Recognition, ‘Thug’ plants, Cancer Funding Inequalities, Feynman’s 100th birthday
Rat eradication; elephant talk; the rise of the dinosaurs; physics of snooker
Antarctic, Kew, Paleogenomics, Sea birds
Human Consciousness: Could a brain in a dish become sentient?
Plastic-eating bacteria, Foam mattresses for crops, The evolved life aquatic, The Double Helix
Pesticides in British Farming
Stephen Hawking Tribute
Genes and education, John Goodenough, Caring bears and hunting
Data Scraping
Buzz kill
Russian Spy Poisoning
Weird Weather?
Science after Brexit
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