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This week, renewables overtook coal as the world's largest source of electricity. China is leading the way in renewable energy 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 right and what British science can learn. The 2025 Nobel Prize winners have just been announced. The Physics Prize was awarded “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical circuit.” But what does this mean? Science journalist and author Phil Ball explains how successful quantum engineering experiments in the 1980s laid the foundation for the designs used in modern quantum computers. Comedian Josie Long finds escapism 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 magazine, Penny Sarchet, brings us a selection of the most important new scientific discoveries of the week. To discover more engaging science content, visit bbc.co.uk, search for BBC Inside Science and follow the links to the Open University. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Claire Salisbury Content Producer: Ella Hubber Assistant Producer: Jonathan Blackwell Editor: Martin Smith Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Hulsworth
