The Best of BBC Sounds
10+ most popular BBC Sounds articles, as voted by our community.
BBC Sounds on Future
BBC Inside Science
Fashion meets science. An expert panel discuss the clothing of the future.
BBC Sounds on Science
BBC Inside Science
The evidence on whether high caffeine energy drinks affect our health.
BBC Inside Science
GPS is vulnerable to interference, so how can we make navigating at sea safer?
BBC Sounds on Space
BBC Inside Science
How a ‘dark energy’ experiment could upend Einstein's theory of the universe.
The Global Story
Nasa's Artemis II launch this spring marks the beginning of a new space race.
BBC Sounds on Travel
BBC Inside Science
50 years since Concorde’s first commercial flight, is aviation going supersonic again?
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In Our Time - Hegel's Philosophy of History
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.
Discovery - Science Stories
Did Newton's theory of gravity really come to him after seeing an apple fall?
Tech Life - Should we allow AI into the classroom?
Some children in the United States are learning with help from AI-powered apps at school.
BBC Inside Science
New evidence that the expansion of the universe is slowing. And the Godfather of AI
BBC Inside Science
We investigate the role our forests are playing in offsetting carbon emissions.
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