Science Weekly

Science editor Ian Sample joins co-host Madeleine Finlay to discuss some of the most intri... more

The Scottish first minister, John Swinney, was recently forced to deny plans to ban cats a... more

Recently, a group of world-leading scientists called for a halt on research to create ‘mir... more

In a case of life imitating art, a 100-metre-wide asteroid has triggered global planetary ... more

From the shockwaves caused by DeepSeek’s launch, to fears of a new AI arms race, and the c... more

Senators are scheduled to vote today on whether to advance Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nominatio... more

In the second episode of our listener questions special, Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay... more

We asked for your questions on getting healthy in 2025 and you delivered. In the first epi... more

Ian Sample speaks to Keon West, a professor of social psychology at the University of Lond... more

A podcast promoting claims that non-verbal autistic children can read minds briefly knocke... more

Last year was full of unexpected science news, from a new strain of Mpox emerging in the D... more

As wildfires continue to cause devastation in Los Angeles, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Albe... more

The Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the year at the end of 2024: brain rot... more

Scientists are increasingly finding that behaviours once seen as depraved often have a dir... more

You might have noticed that everyone has recently become a bit obsessed with blood sugar, ... more

For the regular drinker, the studies that say a daily tipple is better for a longer life t... more

In this episode from July, Ian Sample talks to Josh Davis, a science writer at the Natural... more

In this episode from September, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdiscipl... more

Dr Chris van Tulleken has been at the forefront of the campaign to change our food system ... more

For the past 10 years cosmologists have been left scratching their heads over why two meth... more