Science in 2025

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How will science shape up in 2025?

Marnie Chesterton is joined by a panel of science watchers to discuss what we can expect from the year ahead. We'll talk big science, small science - and the plain cool. What will science do for us in the coming year?

On the Inside Science panel, we have:

- Tom Whipple, science editor of The Times - Shaoni Bhattacharya, former acting science editor of The Observer & freelance editor at Research Professional News - Penny Sarchet, commissioning editor at New Scientist

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Gerry Holt Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth 

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.7	Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.
0:08.4	I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.
0:11.4	But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.
0:15.4	I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into
0:19.2	a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to
0:25.2	give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole
0:30.0	new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories
0:34.2	that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds.
0:40.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:44.6	Welcome to the podcast of BBC Inside Science, first broadcast on the 9th of January 2025.
0:51.4	I'm Marnie Chesterton.
0:53.0	Hello, and if it isn't a little too late to say it, a very happy
0:56.5	new year from Inside Science. This show is the space for new and breaking science on Radio 4,
1:02.2	and in the fresh new days of 2025, I thought it would be fun to look at what to expect from
1:07.5	science world, what science is going to do for us in the coming year. Now, crystal
1:11.9	ballgazing isn't easy, so I'm joined here in the studio by a bunch of science watchers to help
1:17.9	me out. We have Tom Whipple, science editor of the Times. Hello. Freelance science writer and
1:23.7	editor Shaughney Batacharya. Hello. And Penny Sarshei, managing editor at New Scientist.
1:29.2	Hello.
1:30.0	Welcome everyone.
1:31.4	Before we dive into big themes and small secret science and we've also got a fingers and buzzers round,
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