UK Covid-19 Inquiry
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Key scientific witnesses including former Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty are called to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. The BBC\\u2019s Jim Reed brings us his three key moments from the evidence heard over the past few days that have been dubbed \\u201cscience week\\u201d.
NASA has managed to let loose a tool kit in the Earth\\u2019s orbit -- and you can even see it in the night sky with binoculars. Lucinda King explains how this is possible and if space junk is getting out of control.
The United Nations has warned we\\u2019re heading towards 3 degrees warming and another Conference of the Parties, known as COP, is about to take place. The BBC\\u2019s Georgina Rannard reminds us there is still hope for our planet to curb global warming.
The winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize was announced on Wednesday night. It\\u2019s Ed Yong for his book \\u2018An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us\\u2019. Marnie Chesterton was at the ceremony and nabbed Ed as well as Chair of the Judges Alain Goriely to find out what made this book the winner.
Presenter:\\u202f\\u202fMarnie Chesterton \\nProducers: Harrison Lewis, Hannah Robins and Louise Orchard \\nEditor: Richard Collings \\nProduction Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.
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