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Science In Action — 335 episodes
How science got here, and where next
Coral extinctions and chalky unknowns
Paris agreement impacts and drought realities
Old faces and big spaces in small places
A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
Autism and the epigenetics of early brain development
Stephen Hawking gets it right again
Asteroids, comets and where to find them
Why is Afghanistan so vulnerable to earthquakes?
How Fear Spreads
Not cold fusion all over again
Vaccine study retraction request rejected
An end to allergic reactions?
Getting ahead of tsunamis
Discovering Betelgeuse’s Betelbuddy
Biggest black hole merger observed
Tracking ocean circulation systems
Bird flu surges in Cambodia
Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
Half a universe once lost now found
The first solar polar pictures
Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?
Thirteen months to a chip off the moon
WHO Pandemic Agreement reached
Vaccinating rabies’ reservoir dogs
Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding
Scientists of the world unite
Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
Any more for Moore’s Law?
Researching pain, painlessly
Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth
Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations
Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"
New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses
An uncertain forecast for meteorology
Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?
Who runs science?
Hits from space
Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers
Make science great again
Arctic carbon starting to flip
AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids
First US avian flu fatality
Five years of Covid: Part two
Five years of Covid: Part one
Sun Grazing
Warming oceans kill millions of birds
Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans
Fifty years of Charm
Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms
Drastic plastic reductions
New ways to study coronaviruses
Global warming strikes again
Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities
Marvels of life and death
Nobel convergence
Excesses of rain
Historic weather extremes revealed using tree-rings
Flash floods in the Sahara
A landslide-induced megatsunami in Greenland
Concerning viruses found in fur farmed animals
Wow! A mystery signal solved
Fisheries mismanagement uncovered
The spread of rabies into Cape fur seals
Detecting undetected bird flu cases
Examining Nasa's new evidence for Martian life
The human cost of the decline of nature’s carcass cleaners
Destination Asteroid Apophis
Hurricane Beryl’s trail of destruction
Cleaner mining, cleaner batteries
On the road to halting HIV
China: Scientific superpower
US bird flu response warning
A humungous temporary tentacle
Trusting AI with science
The roots of fentanyl addiction
Aurora Bore-WOW-lis
Changing blood types and whale grammar
Crossover infections
An armada for asteroid Apophis?
Unexpected black hole in our galaxy
Bird flu in Antarctica
Earthquake in Taiwan
Star for a day
Out of Africa
Impacts of global warming
The first stars in the universe
One million genomes in two dimensions
Largest ever covid safety study
Climate scientist wins defamation case
Particle physics v climate change
Unethical data gathering in China
Drilling into the past
Swine fever in South East Asia
Seeking supernovas
Tackling tuberculosis in South Africa
Following in the footsteps of ancient humans
Volcanic eruption lights up Iceland
The science of morning sickness
Can carbon capture live up to its hype?
All aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough
Fires in the Pantanal wetlands
Volcanic rumblings in Iceland
Sounds of the Cape
Climate emergency
Bird flu reaches Antarctic region
Alarm at Campi Flegrei, Italy
Devastating earthquakes hit Afghanistan
The best and the worst
Trilobite dinner
More likely, more intense
Deadly floods in Derna
Returning to the North Pole
Drowning coastal ecosystems
Brain-computer interfaces
The science behind the Hawaii fire
Pandemic surveillance system at risk
Bird Flu is back
Ocean current collapse
On the edge of a new volcano
Europe’s heatwave death toll
Melting of Greenland ice sheet
Preparing for crises
Human embryo models
Oceans in hot water?
The beginnings of us
Vaccinating condors against bird flu
Brightest supernova in a decade
Return of the Wildfires
Human genome goes global
Darwin dumped from Indian classrooms
The truth about the Sudan biolab
Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines
Bird flu: The global threat
Chasing tornados in the American mid-West
Gene editing breakthrough
Animals at the Wuhan Market
Return of Cyclone Freddy
Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril
Drought worsens in East Africa
Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
CRISPR & bioethics
Turkey-Syria earthquake
Science on ice
Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
Climate science activism
Atmospheric rivers
One year on from the Tonga eruption
The James Webb Space Telescope: The first six months
Mosquito pesticide failing
Fusion milestone
Ancient warmth in Greenland
COVID spreads in China
A distant planet’s atmosphere
Online harassment of Covid scientists
Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
What peat can tell us about our future
Seismic events on Mars
The most powerful explosion ever recorded
Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
The final moments of DART
Should we mine the deep sea?
Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
The genetics of human intelligence
The China heatwave and the new normal
Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
Deadly drought
Icelandic volcano erupts again
Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
Long Covid ‘brain fog’
Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
Monster microbe
Thirty years after the Earth Summit
Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
Heat death by volcano and other stories
Death in the rainforest
Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
Tsunami detective in Tonga
Radioactive Red Forest
Warming world
Covid in the sewers
Why are Covid-19 cases rising in Hong Kong?
Covid -19 origins
Reforming the ‘China Initiative’
Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology
Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab
Identifying a more infectious HIV variant
The roots of Long Covid
Tonga eruption – how it happened
Have we got it wrong on Omicron?
Corbevax – A vaccine for the world?
2021: The year of variants
Omicron – mild or monster?
Omicron’s rapid replication rate
Can the weather trigger a volcano?
Omicron, racism and trust
Deliberately doomed dart
The end for coal power?
Bambi got Covid
Jet fuel from thin air
Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?
Red blood cells’ surprising immune function
Wetlands under attack
Youngest rock samples from the moon
Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa
New evidence for Sars-CoV-2’s origin in bats
Ebola can remain dormant for five years
Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal
Hurricane season intensifies
World’s first DNA Covid vaccine
Seismic citizen science in Hispaniola
Methane: A climate solution?
Record-shattering weather
The earliest traces of animal life on earth.
Your molecular machinery, now in 3D
Science when the funding dries up
Human induced climate change heats up fast
Insects in incredible detail
Tales of unexpected DNA data
Doubling Earth’s energy imbalance
Evolving viral variant trickery
Zoonotic hotspots and where to find them
Nyiragongo eruption
Robot revolution
Covid and clean air
Africa’s oldest burial
Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan
Exponential increase in Indian covid cases
Rolling out the vaccines faster
On the trail of rare blood clots
Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital
Science on the side of a new volcano
International science at sea
A shooting star parked on your driveway
Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
Waste not, want not
Weird weather
Perseverance approaches Mars
Mixing Covid vaccines
New Covid vaccine
Saving the Northern White Rhino
Gravitational waves and black holes
New variants of SARS-Cov2
Coping with Covid
A year with Covid -19
Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
Freak weather getting even freakier
Vaccines – the Covid confusion
Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
Covid-19 defeats US Marines
Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid
Covid-19 mortality
Do Covid–19 mutations matter?
Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission
Malaria resistance breakthrough
Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
Covid -19 science versus politics
Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
Covid-19 therapy controversy
Trouble in Greenland
Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
Counting the heat health threat from climate change
NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
Covid -19 and Children
Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
Covid -19 hope for severe cases
Food security, locusts and Covid -19
The medical complexity of Covid -19
Brazil’s Covid chaos
Covid-19 vaccines
Loosening lockdown
Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
Presidents and pandemics
Italy, getting Covid-19 under control
Covid 19 - the threat to refugees
Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
The science of social distancing
Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
Tracking coronavirus spread
CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
Understanding the new coronavirus
New Coronavirus
Mount Taal volcano
Australia’s extreme fire season
Adapting California
Gaming climate change
Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
White Island volcano eruption
CRISPR babies scandal – more details
New malaria target
Politics and Amazonia’s fires
Australia burning
Climate in crisis
Wildfires and winds in California
Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
Malaria's origins and a potential new treatment
From batteries to distant worlds
Drought likely to follow India’s floods
Global climate inaction
South East Asia choking - again
Embryoids from stem cells
New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
Nanotube computer says hello
Amazonian fires likely to worsen
Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
Keeping tabs on nuclear weapons
The snowball effect of Arctic fires
The human danger – for sharks
The moon landing and another big space anniversary
'Free' water and electricity for the world?
Analysing the European heatwave
Is climate change driving Europe’s current heatwave?
Iran’s nuclear plans
South Asia heatwave and climate change
US foetal tissue research ban