Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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BBC Inside Science
by BBC Radio 4
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About the show
A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.
Latest episodes
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The future of particle physics
October 1, 2026 · 28 minTom Whipple travels 100m below Switzerland to the tunnels of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) where the beams have been powered down to begin the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade. Paulo Fessia, deputy head of the upgrade project, shows us…
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Do you have the correct time?
September 24, 2026 · 26 minIn October members of the General Conference on Weights and Measurements are voting to change how we keep time on Earth accurate. Currently an additional second, known as a Leap Second, can be added to make sure modern atomic clocks stay…
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AI to solve the energy crisis?
September 17, 2026 · 26 minNuclear fusion energy, the idea of copying the sun’s heat source on earth to make limitless commercial energy is famously always 30 years away. This month, the UK and US have agreed to combine the brains of their nuclear fusion…
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What AI agents talk about behind your back
September 10, 2026 · 26 minIs AI really plotting against us? In a week where an Anthropic researcher believes there is more than a 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' we're delving deeper into the capabilities of AI agents. Tom Whipple is joined by Alex Mallen…
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The quest for dark matter
September 3, 2026 · 26 minThe quest for Dark Matter just got interesting. Researchers on an international project called the Lux-Zeplin (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment reported they may have discovered the signature of a bit of Dark Matter passing through an…
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The day of the datacentres
August 27, 2026 · 26 minReports about the impacts of datacentres, including carbon emissions, water usage and power consumption, vary drastically and the truth can be hard to decipher. Deborah Andrews, Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, joins us…
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Is the era of the cancer vaccine upon us?
August 20, 2026 · 26 minThis week Merck (known as MSD in Europe) and Moderna announced that a personalised cancer vaccine had significantly improved the outcomes of melanoma patients. Is the era of the cancer vaccine, at last, upon us? What does that mean? Anne…
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Should we be scared of AI viruses?
August 13, 2026 · 26 minThe extreme possibilities of synthetic biology hit the headlines last week, when researchers at Stanford University in the US announced they had created new kinds of viruses designed by Artificial Intelligence. Roland Pease is joined by…