麻豆社 Inside Science Podcast
A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
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Plankton's untapped potential
Thursday
From Hay Festival 2026, a dive into a big year for our oceans.
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El Ni帽o is nigh, but so what?
Thu 21 May 2026
El Ni帽o is stirring in the Pacific Ocean and may well be one of the strongest yet.
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The science behind hantavirus
Thu 14 May 2026
What do we know about the disease following its outbreak on a cruise ship this month?
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Should Pluto become a planet again?
Thu 7 May 2026
We explore whether Pluto should regain its title as the solar system鈥檚 ninth planet
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Why is Europe the fastest-warming continent?
Thu 30 Apr 2026
We explore the mechanisms causing Europe's warming twice as fast as the global average.
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Can we prevent the next pandemic?
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Creating and manufacturing a novel vaccine capable of combatting bird flu.
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Forty years on from nuclear disaster
Thu 16 Apr 2026
What was learnt from the Chernobyl disaster and how has it shaped UK energy production?
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Responding to your science questions
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Why men have nipples and how gravity slingshots work; your science questions answered.
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The future of space travel
Thu 26 Mar 2026
A nuclear-powered spacecraft promises deeper and more explorative space travel.
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Is quantum computing having its moment?
Thu 19 Mar 2026
The UK government announces a 拢2billion investment in quantum computing.
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Is the Earth warming faster than we expected?
Thu 12 Mar 2026
New research on what three very hot years can tell us about climate change.
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How is war being fought in space?
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Space warfare, space manufacturing and satellite data at Space Comm Expo
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Does new science get us closer to finding out how life on earth began?
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Molecular biologists find tiny self-replicating molecules which may be key to life origins
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How to bury radioactive waste
Thu 19 Feb 2026
And how can future civilisations remember where we put it?
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Will there be a city on the moon in ten years?
Thu 12 Feb 2026
What would it really take to build a city on the moon?
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Where do forever chemicals come from?
Thu 5 Feb 2026
New research on how forever chemicals get into our environment.
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Should we rethink navigating by GPS?
Thu 29 Jan 2026
GPS is vulnerable to interference, so how can we make navigating at sea safer?
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How is air travel returning to supersonic speeds?
Thu 22 Jan 2026
50 years since Concorde鈥檚 first commercial flight, is aviation going supersonic again?
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Why is Nasa sending people around the moon?
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Nasa鈥檚 Artemis II rocket is about to be rolled out. What is the mission hoping to achieve?
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How rare are Greenland鈥檚 rare earth elements?
Thu 8 Jan 2026
What rare earths have been found in Greenland, and why do we want them?
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How did President Trump transform science in 2025?
Thu 18 Dec 2025
President Trump continues to shake up science. We look at the impact it鈥檚 already having.
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Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire?
Thu 11 Dec 2025
New evidence shows that early neanderthals made fire 350 thousand years before we thought.
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A 'functional' cure for HIV?
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Almost four decades after the first HIV treatment, is there finally a 鈥榝unctional鈥� cure?
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Why aren鈥檛 gene therapies more common?
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Three decades since the first successful gene therapy, why aren鈥檛 we using them more?
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What鈥檚 in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations?
Thu 20 Nov 2025
As COP 30 draws to close in Brazil, we speak to a former negotiator.
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Could technology replace animal testing in science?
Thu 13 Nov 2025
The UK government plans to phase out animal experiments. What are the alternatives?
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Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
Thu 6 Nov 2025
New evidence that the expansion of the universe is slowing. And the Godfather of AI.
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Is climate change to blame for Hurricane Melissa?
Thu 30 Oct 2025
The science of what makes hurricanes so deadly.
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Have scientists created a bionic eye?
Thu 23 Oct 2025
The bionic microchip implant which allows registered blind people to see again.
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