The oldest known sexual being, a 400 million year old fish sex movie and the prehistoric turtles which were fossilised in the act of copulation. ...

Jason Palmer looks at the emerging field of quantum biology. From smell to navigation, it seems that some of the hardest problems in biology could be...

The ENCODE project recently announced that much of our genome is not junk, in other words doing nothing. Adam Rutherford reports on the significance...

2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Jared Diamond about his journey from the gall bladder to global history via a passion for the birds of Papua New Guinea.

Jim Al-Khalili meets science showman Andrea Sella and discovers how his theatrical chemistry demonstrations are thrilling audiences.

Evolutionary biologist Dr Yan Wong asks whether men are at a biological disadvantage when it comes to life expectancy

The most notorious fraud in the history of Science is the focus of this week’s programme. Exactly one hundred years ago, British scientists...

Finding the Higgs boson was the last piece in physicists' model of matter. But Tracey Logan discovers there's much more for them to find out at the...

Kevin Fong talks to one of the last two men on the moon, forty years after the final Apollo 17 mission launched on 7th December 1972. As an Apollo...