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Science In Action — 335 episodes

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How science got here, and where next

2

Coral extinctions and chalky unknowns

3

Paris agreement impacts and drought realities

4

Old faces and big spaces in small places

5

A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe

6

Autism and the epigenetics of early brain development

7

Stephen Hawking gets it right again

8

Asteroids, comets and where to find them

9

Why is Afghanistan so vulnerable to earthquakes?

10

How Fear Spreads

11

Not cold fusion all over again

12

Vaccine study retraction request rejected

13

An end to allergic reactions?

14

Getting ahead of tsunamis

15

Discovering Betelgeuse’s Betelbuddy

16

Biggest black hole merger observed

17

Tracking ocean circulation systems

18

Bird flu surges in Cambodia

19

Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images

20

Half a universe once lost now found

21

The first solar polar pictures

22

Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?

23

Thirteen months to a chip off the moon

24

WHO Pandemic Agreement reached

25

Vaccinating rabies’ reservoir dogs

26

Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding

27

Scientists of the world unite

28

Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited

29

Any more for Moore’s Law?

30

Researching pain, painlessly

31

Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth

32

Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations

33

Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"

34

New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses

35

An uncertain forecast for meteorology

36

Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?

37

Who runs science?

38

Hits from space

39

Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers

40

Make science great again

41

Arctic carbon starting to flip

42

AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids

43

First US avian flu fatality

44

Five years of Covid: Part two

45

Five years of Covid: Part one

46

Sun Grazing

47

Warming oceans kill millions of birds

48

Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans

49

Fifty years of Charm

50

Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms

51

Drastic plastic reductions

52

New ways to study coronaviruses

53

Global warming strikes again

54

Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities

55

Marvels of life and death

56

Nobel convergence

57

Excesses of rain

58

Historic weather extremes revealed using tree-rings

59

Flash floods in the Sahara

60

A landslide-induced megatsunami in Greenland

61

Concerning viruses found in fur farmed animals

62

Wow! A mystery signal solved

63

Fisheries mismanagement uncovered

64

The spread of rabies into Cape fur seals

65

Detecting undetected bird flu cases

66

Examining Nasa's new evidence for Martian life

67

The human cost of the decline of nature’s carcass cleaners

68

Destination Asteroid Apophis

69

Hurricane Beryl’s trail of destruction

70

Cleaner mining, cleaner batteries

71

On the road to halting HIV

72

China: Scientific superpower

73

US bird flu response warning

74

A humungous temporary tentacle

75

Trusting AI with science

76

The roots of fentanyl addiction

77

Aurora Bore-WOW-lis

78

Changing blood types and whale grammar

79

Crossover infections

80

An armada for asteroid Apophis?

81

Unexpected black hole in our galaxy

82

Bird flu in Antarctica

83

Earthquake in Taiwan

84

Star for a day

85

Out of Africa

86

Impacts of global warming

87

The first stars in the universe

88

One million genomes in two dimensions

89

Largest ever covid safety study

90

Climate scientist wins defamation case

91

Particle physics v climate change

92

Unethical data gathering in China

93

Drilling into the past

94

Swine fever in South East Asia

95

Seeking supernovas

96

Tackling tuberculosis in South Africa

97

Following in the footsteps of ancient humans

98

Volcanic eruption lights up Iceland

99

The science of morning sickness

100

Can carbon capture live up to its hype?

101

All aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough

102

Fires in the Pantanal wetlands

103

Volcanic rumblings in Iceland

104

Sounds of the Cape

105

Climate emergency

106

Bird flu reaches Antarctic region

107

Alarm at Campi Flegrei, Italy

108

Devastating earthquakes hit Afghanistan

109

The best and the worst

110

Trilobite dinner

111

More likely, more intense

112

Deadly floods in Derna

113

Returning to the North Pole

114

Drowning coastal ecosystems

115

Brain-computer interfaces

116

The science behind the Hawaii fire

117

Pandemic surveillance system at risk

118

Bird Flu is back

119

Ocean current collapse

120

On the edge of a new volcano

121

Europe’s heatwave death toll

122

Melting of Greenland ice sheet

123

Preparing for crises

124

Human embryo models

125

Oceans in hot water?

126

The beginnings of us

127

Vaccinating condors against bird flu

128

Brightest supernova in a decade

129

Return of the Wildfires

130

Human genome goes global

131

Darwin dumped from Indian classrooms

132

The truth about the Sudan biolab

133

Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

134

Bird flu: The global threat

135

Chasing tornados in the American mid-West

136

Gene editing breakthrough

137

Animals at the Wuhan Market

138

Return of Cyclone Freddy

139

Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril

140

Drought worsens in East Africa

141

Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar

142

CRISPR & bioethics

143

Turkey-Syria earthquake

144

Science on ice

145

Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink

146

Climate science activism

147

Atmospheric rivers

148

One year on from the Tonga eruption

149

The James Webb Space Telescope: The first six months

150

Mosquito pesticide failing

151

Fusion milestone

152

Ancient warmth in Greenland

153

COVID spreads in China

154

A distant planet’s atmosphere

155

Online harassment of Covid scientists

156

Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients

157

What peat can tell us about our future

158

Seismic events on Mars

159

The most powerful explosion ever recorded

160

Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats

161

Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners

162

The final moments of DART

163

Should we mine the deep sea?

164

Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods

165

The genetics of human intelligence

166

The China heatwave and the new normal

167

Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed

168

Deadly drought

169

Icelandic volcano erupts again

170

Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts

171

The first galaxies at the universe's dawn

172

Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere

173

First images from the James Webb Space Telescope

174

Long Covid ‘brain fog’

175

Extreme heat death risk in Latin America

176

Monster microbe

177

Thirty years after the Earth Summit

178

Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts

179

Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?

180

Heat death by volcano and other stories

181

Death in the rainforest

182

Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart

183

Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100

184

The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave

185

Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden

186

How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression

187

Tsunami detective in Tonga

188

Radioactive Red Forest

189

Warming world

190

Covid in the sewers

191

Why are Covid-19 cases rising in Hong Kong?

192

Covid -19 origins

193

Reforming the ‘China Initiative’

194

Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology

195

Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab

196

Identifying a more infectious HIV variant

197

The roots of Long Covid

198

Tonga eruption – how it happened

199

Have we got it wrong on Omicron?

200

Corbevax – A vaccine for the world?

201

2021: The year of variants

202

Omicron – mild or monster?

203

Omicron’s rapid replication rate

204

Can the weather trigger a volcano?

205

Omicron, racism and trust

206

Deliberately doomed dart

207

The end for coal power?

208

Bambi got Covid

209

Jet fuel from thin air

210

Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?

211

Red blood cells’ surprising immune function

212

Wetlands under attack

213

Youngest rock samples from the moon

214

Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa

215

New evidence for Sars-CoV-2’s origin in bats

216

Ebola can remain dormant for five years

217

Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal

218

Hurricane season intensifies

219

World’s first DNA Covid vaccine

220

Seismic citizen science in Hispaniola

221

Methane: A climate solution?

222

Record-shattering weather

223

The earliest traces of animal life on earth.

224

Your molecular machinery, now in 3D

225

Science when the funding dries up

226

Human induced climate change heats up fast

227

Insects in incredible detail

228

Tales of unexpected DNA data

229

Doubling Earth’s energy imbalance

230

Evolving viral variant trickery

231

Zoonotic hotspots and where to find them

232

Nyiragongo eruption

233

Robot revolution

234

Covid and clean air

235

Africa’s oldest burial

236

Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan

237

Exponential increase in Indian covid cases

238

Rolling out the vaccines faster

239

On the trail of rare blood clots

240

Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital

241

Science on the side of a new volcano

242

International science at sea

243

A shooting star parked on your driveway

244

Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull

245

Waste not, want not

246

Weird weather

247

Perseverance approaches Mars

248

Mixing Covid vaccines

249

New Covid vaccine

250

Saving the Northern White Rhino

251

Gravitational waves and black holes

252

New variants of SARS-Cov2

253

Coping with Covid

254

A year with Covid -19

255

Covid -19 – Mutations are normal

256

The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus

257

Freak weather getting even freakier

258

Vaccines – the Covid confusion

259

Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity

260

Covid-19 defeats US Marines

261

Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans

262

Osiris Rex stows asteroid material

263

Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid

264

Covid-19 mortality

265

Do Covid–19 mutations matter?

266

Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?

267

Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission

268

Malaria resistance breakthrough

269

Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk

270

Covid -19 science versus politics

271

Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?

272

Covid-19 therapy controversy

273

Trouble in Greenland

274

Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine

275

Counting the heat health threat from climate change

276

NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake

277

Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people

278

How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?

279

Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test

280

Covid -19 and Children

281

Record high temperatures – in the Arctic

282

Covid -19 hope for severe cases

283

Food security, locusts and Covid -19

284

The medical complexity of Covid -19

285

Brazil’s Covid chaos

286

Covid-19 vaccines

287

Loosening lockdown

288

Covid -19 new hope from blood tests

289

Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19

290

Presidents and pandemics

291

Italy, getting Covid-19 under control

292

Covid 19 - the threat to refugees

293

Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins

294

The science of social distancing

295

Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?

296

Covid -19 how infectious is it really?

297

Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change

298

Tracking coronavirus spread

299

CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak

300

Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?

301

Understanding the new coronavirus

302

New Coronavirus

303

Mount Taal volcano

304

Australia’s extreme fire season

305

Adapting California

306

Gaming climate change

307

Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption

308

White Island volcano eruption

309

CRISPR babies scandal – more details

310

New malaria target

311

Politics and Amazonia’s fires

312

Australia burning

313

Climate in crisis

314

Wildfires and winds in California

315

Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?

316

Malaria's origins and a potential new treatment

317

From batteries to distant worlds

318

Drought likely to follow India’s floods

319

Global climate inaction

320

South East Asia choking - again

321

Embryoids from stem cells

322

New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion

323

Nanotube computer says hello

324

Amazonian fires likely to worsen

325

Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse

326

Keeping tabs on nuclear weapons

327

The snowball effect of Arctic fires

328

The human danger – for sharks

329

The moon landing and another big space anniversary

330

'Free' water and electricity for the world?

331

Analysing the European heatwave

332

Is climate change driving Europe’s current heatwave?

333

Iran’s nuclear plans

334

South Asia heatwave and climate change

335

US foetal tissue research ban