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Science Focus Podcast

The brightest names in science and technology talk to the BBC Focus team about the ideas and breakthroughs shaping our world in this weekly podcast.

What does it mean to be a man? – Gary Barker © Emmanuel Polanco
The Human Body

Science Focus Podcast What does it mean to be a man?

Is an implantable electronic device the future of medicine? – Gordon Wallace © Getty Images
Future Technology

Science Focus Podcast Is an implantable electronic device the future of medicine?

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What is your brain doing while you sleep? – Dr Guy Leschziner © Getty Images
The Human Body

Science Focus Podcast What is your brain doing while you sleep?

How accurately can we predict the weather? – Andrew Blum (Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio stares at a visual showing Hurricane Sandy using data from Goddard Earth Observing System Model © NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth)
Planet Earth

Science Focus Podcast How accurately can we predict the weather?

James Lovelock at 100 © Alamy
Planet Earth

Science Focus Podcast What can the father of Gaia theory tell us about our future? – James Lovelock

What happened at Bluedot festival 2019? – Libby Jackson, Tom Shakespeare and Danielle George © Lucas Sinclair
Space

Science Focus Podcast What happened at Bluedot festival 2019?

Could leaving nature to its own devices be the key to meeting the UK’s climate goals? (Eurasian beaver © Getty Images)
Nature

Science Focus Podcast Is rewilding key to meeting the UK’s climate goals?

What does a world with an ageing population look like? – Sarah Harper © Getty Images
The Human Body

Science Focus Podcast What does a world with an ageing population look like?

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Is there really no such thing as a fish? – Andrew Hunter Murray and Dan Schreiber
Everyday science

Science Focus Podcast Is there really no such thing as a fish?

Why is the Moon landing still relevant 50 years on? – Kevin Fong © NASA
Space

Science Focus Podcast Why is the Moon landing still relevant 50 years on?

The mindset behind the Moon landing – Richard Wiseman (Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the Moon at Tranquility Base © Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
Space

Science Focus Podcast The mindset behind the Moon landing – Richard Wiseman

Can we really predict when doomsday will happen? - William Poundstone © Getty Images
Planet Earth

Science Focus Podcast Can we really predict when doomsday will happen?

Is body positivity the answer to body image issues? – Phillippa Diedrichs © Getty Images
The Human Body

Science Focus Podcast Is body positivity the answer to body image issues?

Is science racist? – Angela Saini (Nazi officials use callipers to measure an ethnic German's nose. The Nazis developed a system of facial measurement that was supposedly a way of determining racial descent. The compiled results, based on biased samples, were used to back up the Nazi claim that Germans were a pure and superior "Aryan" race © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Everyday science

Science Focus Podcast Is racism creeping into science?