BBC Inside Science – What can the UK learn from China on renewable energy?
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This week, renewable energy overtakes coal as the world’s largest source of electricity. China leads the renewable energy sector, despite its global reputation as a coal-burning polluter. Zulfiqar Khan, visiting professor at Bournemouth University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Furong Li, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, explain what China is doing well and what British science can learn. The 2025 Nobel Prize winners have just been announced. The physics prize was awarded “for the discovery of the tunneling effect of macroscopic quantum mechanics and the quantification of energy in an electrical circuit”. But what does this mean? Science journalist and author Phil Ball explains how winning quantum engineering experiments of the 1980s laid the foundation for the devices used in today’s quantum computers. Comedian Josie Long finds escape in extinct megafauna. She talks to Marnie Chesterton about her new stand-up tour “Now is the Time of Monsters.” And the editor-in-chief of the new scientist, Penny Sarchet, presents her selection of the most important new scientific discoveries of the week. For more fascinating science content, visit bbc.co.uk, search for BBC Inside Science and follow the links to The Open University. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Clare Salisbury Content Producer: Ella Hubber Assistant Producer: Jonathan Blackwell Editor: Martin Smith Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
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