With the northern hemisphere hurricane season in full swing, the Science Weekly team brave the gusts to talk to Professor Kerry Emanuel at MIT about extreme weather. Is global warming producing more hurricanes and making them more powerful?
Host Alok Jha finds out how snakes are producing carbon-free energy off the coast of Portugal. The bobbing red tubes which were designed and built by the Edinburgh-based company Pelamis Wave Power are at the cutting edge of renewable energy technology.
James Randerson spends some time at Her Majesty's please to find out what prisons are doing to foster biodiversity within and around their walls. With nine internationally important sites of special scientific interest, it is more than you might think.
The team also pick over the Swiss jetman Yves Rossy's successful flight across the channel with only a jet-powered wing strapped to his back, frustrating times at the Large Hadron Collider and some Chinese fakery in space.
