Science and Nature clips
Listen to a selection of clips from recent and upcoming programmes.
The origin of Stephen Hawking's voice
Lucy Hawking talks to Laura Fine about her father's pioneering work on speech synthesis.
Transmission Electron Microscope
Mark Miodownik introduces the wonders of the Transmission Electron Microscope.
Antarctic scientist: 'We watch The Thing once a year'
Adam Rutherford speaks to Agnieszka Fryckowska about living and working in Antarctica.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Professor Sophie Scott of University College London explains how MRI scanners work.
The 'chemical warfare' of fungi
Ecologist Lynne Boddy explains how fungi fight each other for resources.
Beyond the apple: there's more to physicist Sir Isaac Newton
Patricia Fara, Lisa Jardine and Simon Schaffer put Newton into context.
Would you eat an artificial burger?
Pallab Ghosh visits Maastricht in the Netherlands to see how "test tube burgers" are made.
Refracting Telescope
Inside Science visits a refracting telescope at The Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
A close encounter with a polar bear
Ice artist Galya Morrell tells of a time when she used silence as her best defence.
Laboratory leather
Forget meat, lab-grown leather could be the first cultured beef product to hit shelves.
Early plant-naming system 'scandalised English botanists'
Lisa Jardine and Andrea Wulf on why the new classification system was thought 'smutty'.
Asteroids threat: "Eventually our number will be up"
Edward Lu says there are one million asteroids large enough to destroy a major city.
Reporter records his own vasectomy
Geoff Bird takes his recording equipment with him when he goes for his vasectomy.
The ethics of genetic testing in children
What influences the decision to test a child for faulty gene?
Trai Anfield goes in search for pine martens in Central Scotland—Living World, Pine Marten
Video courtesy of Trai Anfield
Walking Trees - Living World: Native Lime—Living World, Native Lime
Video courtesy of Chris Sperring
Penguin Recognition System
Physicist Peter Barham discusses spying on individual penguins in Show Us Your Instrument.
“Potential losers fight a great deal harder than potential winners”
Psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains prospect theory in a nutshell.
"Islamic medical ethics is an emerging science"
What happens when religious beliefs are at odds with medical decisions?
Why was Wedgwood china a "remarkable" 18th century creation?
Josiah Wedgwood carried out thousands of experiments to achieve his unique Portland Blue.
Do you have ape feet?
Alice Roberts asks Robert Crompton whether some of us have more ape-like feet than others.
Global temperature still likely to "carry on increasing"
Jo Haigh, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London, and Jim Al-Khalili.
High-Energy Laser
Dr Ceri Brenner uses a high-energy laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford.
Record roadkill for conservation: Project Splatter
Alice Roberts and Sarah Perkins find an example that shows why we should record roadkill.
