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BBC Inside Science

Responding to your science questions

BBC Inside Science

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Science

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re letting you run the airwaves. Victoria Gill puts your science questions to Catherine Heymans, Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science at University College London, and Penny Sarchet, Managing editor of New Scientist.

If you’ve ever wondered why men have nipples, how gravity slingshots work, or whether photosynthesis could solve our energy problems, that’s all on this week’s BBC Inside Science.

Presenter: Victoria Gill Producers: Ella Hubber & Debbie Kilbride Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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0:00.0

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0:19.2

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0:34.0

Hello and welcome to Inside Science. Now, what I love about making this program is the ability

0:38.8

to really explore any aspect of science and to try to understand how it's shaping the world

0:44.0

we live in. We've discussed everything from dark energy to food additives here and we do our best

0:48.9

to demystify without skimping on fascinating and important detail. And today we're looking to you, our lovely,

0:55.5

curious-minded listeners to tell us what you want to hear about. What questions would you like

0:59.9

some scientific insight into? Real human scientific insight, not something an algorithm has

1:05.1

scraped off the internet. And to that end, we have a wonderfully clever group of humans in the studio

1:10.0

today to answer your

1:11.1

quandaries, as many of them as we can get through. Could you please introduce yourself,

1:15.2

Science Panel? Hello, everyone. I'm Catherine Heymans. I'm the Astronomer Royal for Scotland,

1:19.7

and I'm also a professor at the University of Edinburgh. And I'm Mark Mazin. I'm a professor

1:24.5

of Earth System Science at University College London, which means that I'm

1:29.4

very lucky I study climate change in the past, the present and the future. And you have to say it like

1:34.7

that. Otherwise, it doesn't sound good. And I'm Penny Sarshe. I'm managing editor at New Scientist. Before

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