Science In Action Podcast
The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
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Scientists of the world unite.
Yesterday
Earth science in every direction from the European Geophysical Union’s 2025 assembly.
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Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
Last Thursday
Scientists find yet more data from early Covid to suggest zoonotic cross-over as origin.
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Any more for Moore’s Law?
Thu 17 Apr 2025
It's 60 years since Gordon Moore predicted computing power would double every two years
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Researching pain, painlessly
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Researchers grow a mini human pain pathway in a flask for testing pain painlessly
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Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth
Thu 3 Apr 2025
How Myanmar’s tragic earthquake left a 500km scar on earth's surface in just 90 seconds.
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Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations
Thu 27 Mar 2025
As the US halts all Covid related research, what is the impact on pandemic preparedness?
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Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Individual stories of those affected by the Trump administration's upheaval of science
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New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses
Thu 13 Mar 2025
WHO pandemic call, an H5N1 call to arms from global health leaders.
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An uncertain forecast for meteorology
Thu 6 Mar 2025
As US government cuts imperil weather data, meteorologists worldwide forecast trouble.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?
Thu 27 Feb 2025
How astronomers minimised our asteroid angst, despite a threat to our darkest skies
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Who runs science?
Thu 20 Feb 2025
A call from European flu experts to create a more sustainable research network.
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Hits from space
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4 to decide if it will miss us in 2032.
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Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers
Thu 6 Feb 2025
The mystery swarm of small earthquakes near the island of Santorini beg for more data
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Arctic carbon starting to flip
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Thirty per cent of the Arctic is switching from carbon sink to carbon source.
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AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids
Thu 16 Jan 2025
New types of snake-bite anti-venoms are designed by AI.
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First US avian flu fatality
Thu 9 Jan 2025
H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the US and claims its first human life
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Five years of Covid: Part two
Thu 2 Jan 2025
Five years on from the emergence of Sars CoV-2, what have we learned?
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Five years of Covid: Part one
Boxing Day 2024
Five years on from the emergence of Sars CoV-2, what have we learned?
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Sun Grazing
Thu 19 Dec 2024
The future of vaccinations, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, and the dawn of complex life.
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Warming oceans kill millions of birds
Thu 12 Dec 2024
4 million sea birds died in Alaska as a result of a warming pacific.
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Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans
Thu 5 Dec 2024
How a single mutation in bovine H5N1 flu can make it prefer human cells.
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Fifty years of Charm
Thu 28 Nov 2024
Why November 1974 became known as the “November Revolution” in particle physics
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Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Every 2024 Atlantic hurricane was intensified by warming climate, with categories raised.
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Drastic plastic reductions
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Machine learning models suggest pathways to reduce global plastic waste by 91% by 2050.
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New ways to study coronaviruses
Thu 7 Nov 2024
Scientists in Wuhan and the US unveil a new way to design virus receptors on human cells.
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Global warming strikes again
Thu 31 Oct 2024
The devastating floods around Valencia are easily attributable to climate change.
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Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Does the famous Betelgeuse have an orbiting companion, hidden in plain sight?
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Marvels of life and death
Thu 17 Oct 2024
As fish farming impacts grow, a look at some clever life-hacks at the extremes.
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Nobel convergence
Thu 10 Oct 2024
A look at the stories behind the Nobel science prizes announced this week.
