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Season 2025

  • S2025E01 Electric Flight: Will It Take Off?

    • March 29, 2025
    • BBC News

    Can we clean up air travel? Adrienne Murray takes to the skies in Sweden to explore developments in electric flight. Joe Tidy visits rural Zambia to see how Bitcoin is helping electricity projects to get thousands of villagers on the grid. Nick Kwek has the tech developments from the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. And Alasdair Keane gets up close to the rhinos at a new conservation centre in the UK.

  • S2025E02 Gaming: AI and Innovation

    • April 5, 2025
    • BBC News

    Marc Cieslak has the highlights from the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, where thousands in the industry come together to share the latest innovation and emerging trends. Zoe Kleinman heads behind the scenes at Microsoft's HQ as the company celebrates its 50th anniversary. Alasdair Keane meets the robots helping to test and develop the soaps and shampoos we use every day. Plus Laura Goodwin takes us into the world of AI scents.

  • S2025E03 Nuclear Fusion: How Close Are We?

    • April 12, 2025
    • BBC News

    Could nuclear fusion supply endless clean energy? Nick Kwek visits the Fuse testing lab in Montreal - a startup with the goal of using nuclear fusion to solve the world's energy problems. And Zoe Kleinman heads behind the scenes of Microsoft's quantum computing lab. Plus, in gaming news Tom Gerken gets his hands on the much-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2.

  • S2025E04 Supercomputers: Solving the Big Problems

    • May 10, 2025
    • BBC News

    Paul Carter explores how one of the world's fastest supercomputers is shaping climate research. Laura Goodwin finds out how scientists from around the world are mapping the cosmos.

  • S2025E05 Formula One: Can It Go Green?

    • May 17, 2025
    • BBC News

    Alasdair Keane visits the McLaren Technology Centre to see how the Formula 1 team is using recycled materials in its cars, as it aims to make the sport more sustainable.

  • S2025E06 Embryo Screening: Designing Life?

    • May 24, 2025
    • BBC News

    Lara Lewington explores a controversial new form of genetic testing which claims to predict how likely an unborn child is to develop diseases.

  • S2025E07 Super Science: Inside ESS

    • May 31, 2025
    • BBC News

    Adrienne Murray heads behind the scenes at the European Spallation Source in Sweden, created to produce the world's most powerful source of neutrons.

  • S2025E08 Rubin Observatory: Mapping the Universe

    • June 7, 2025
    • BBC News

    Ione Wells has behind the scenes access to the Rubin Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, while Paul Carter visits an Amazon warehouse introducing a new robot with a sense of touch.

  • S2025E09 Chile’s Lost Children

    • July 5, 2025
    • BBC News

    Ione Wells explores the search for Chile's stolen children, decades after they were taken during the country's military dictatorship, and asks if tech can help families find answers.

  • S2025E10 Esports World Cup

    • July 12, 2025
    • BBC News

    Exploring some of the latest tech innovations in the world of sport, including AI in boxing, the Esports World Cup, e-bikes and Paralympic wheelchair fencers using biomechanics.

  • S2025E11 Lithium Mining: The Impact

    • July 19, 2025
    • BBC News

    As Chile plans to ramp up lithium mining - a mineral crucial to the EV industry - Ione Wells explores if it can be done more sustainably.

  • S2025E12 Sagrada Família: Can Tech Help Complete it?

    • July 26, 2025
    • BBC News

    Yasmin Morgan-Griffiths has exclusive behind-the-scenes access to La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to see how technology is playing a key role in completing Gaudi's vision for this historic landmark.

  • S2025E13 AI and the Future of Humanity

    • August 2, 2025
    • BBC News

    Joe Tidy explores a controversial new research paper, which forecasts how the rise of artificial intelligence may play out - and if it could destroy humanity.