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This week, renewables overtake coal as the world鈥檚 biggest source of electricity. China is leading the renewable charge despite its global reputation as a coal burning polluter. Zulfiqar Khan, Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University and Tsinghua University in Beijing and Furong Li, Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath explain what China is getting right and what UK science can learn.

The 2025 Nobel Prize winners have just been announced. The prize for physics has been awarded 鈥渇or the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.鈥� But what does that mean? Science journalist and author Phil Ball explains how the winning quantum engineering experiments in the 1980s laid the groundwork for devise used in today鈥檚 quantum computers.

Comedian Josie Long finds escapism in extinct megafauna. She speaks to Marnie Chesterton about her new stand up tour 鈥楴ow is the Time of Monsters鈥�. And Managing Editor for the new Scientist Penny Sarchet brings us her pick of the week鈥檚 most important new scientific discoveries.

To discover more fascinating science content, head to bbc.co.uk search for 麻豆社 Inside Science and follow the links to The Open University.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton
Producer: Clare Salisbury
Content Producer: Ella Hubber
Assistant Producer: Jonathan Blackwell
Editor: Martin Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth