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Future File has taken a bit of an indefinite hiatus recently - but we're back for a one-off special edition show all about science!Science continues to progress at breathtaking speed and making sense of it all can be a bit tricky.Technological advancements face off against danger ...  Show more

The fact that Facebook is hoarding your data is nothing new. But you may be surprised at just how nefarious the big blue social network has become.That's the message from Mark Weinstein, a privacy advocate and the founder and CEO of an alternative social network called MeWe.Mark ...  Show more

On this week’s show: What we can learn from two supermassive black holes that appear to be on a collision course with each other, and the brave new online world in which social media dominates and gatekeeps public access to scientific information First up, Staff Writer Daniel Cle ...  Show more

Recorded in front of an audience at Bradford’s National Museum of Science and Media, we’re delving into the next 100 years of broadcasting, examining the science and technology behind what we’ll watch and listen to. And what the seismic technological shifts mean for all of us. Vi ...  Show more

There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. Gary Smith's book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science (Oxford UP, 2023) argues that, ironically, science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themsel ...  Show more

Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for a new series of Radio 4's witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. In a special programme recorded as part of this year's Cheltenham Science Festival, Brian and Robin are joined by sp ...  Show more