Science In Action Podcast
The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
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Pandemic surveillance system at risk
Thu 10 Aug 2023
One of the most useful scientific tools you’ve never heard of is being paywalled
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On the edge of a new volcano
Thu 20 Jul 2023
A spectacular volcanic eruption hits Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula for the third year
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Europe’s heatwave death toll
Thu 13 Jul 2023
Around 62,000 people died in last year's European heatwave - is this the new normal?
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Melting of Greenland ice sheet
Thu 6 Jul 2023
Record-breaking global temperatures are accelerating Greenland ice melt
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Preparing for crises
Thu 29 Jun 2023
We have entered a state of multiple and entangled crises. How can research help?
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Human embryo models
Thu 22 Jun 2023
Scientists have made human embryo models – or “synthetic embryos” - in the lab.
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Oceans in hot water?
Thu 15 Jun 2023
A major El Niño is building and heating up the world. What is the forecast?
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The beginnings of us
Thu 8 Jun 2023
New molecular fossil records shed evidence on the billion-year-old roots of modern life
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Vaccinating condors against bird flu
Thu 1 Jun 2023
Endangered condors are being vaccinated to save them from deadly H5N1 bird flu
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Brightest supernova in a decade
Thu 25 May 2023
The brightest supernova in a decade springs astronomers around the world into action
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Return of the Wildfires
Thu 18 May 2023
The record-breaking heat behind the destructive North American wildfires
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Human genome goes global
Thu 11 May 2023
The Pangenome project captures human diversity with 47 new genomes
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Darwin dumped from Indian classrooms
Thu 4 May 2023
The exclusion of Darwinism from the curriculum prompts protests in India
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The truth about the Sudan biolab
Thu 27 Apr 2023
Khartoum’s National Public Health Laboratory is caught up in the Sudanese conflict.
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Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines
Thu 20 Apr 2023
Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines
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Bird flu: The global threat
Thu 13 Apr 2023
H5N1 avian flu is racing across the world. What can be done to control it?
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Chasing tornados in the American mid-West
Thu 6 Apr 2023
Chasing tornados in the American mid-West – the science behind the current outbreaks.
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Animals at the Wuhan Market
Thu 23 Mar 2023
What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic?
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Return of Cyclone Freddy
Thu 16 Mar 2023
Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month.
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Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril
Thu 9 Mar 2023
Human Genome Editing: curing genetic disease and ensuring it's safe and available to all.
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Drought worsens in East Africa
Thu 2 Mar 2023
Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.
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Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
Thu 23 Feb 2023
Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.
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CRISPR & bioethics
Thu 16 Feb 2023
He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018
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Science on ice
Thu 2 Feb 2023
The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter’s icy moons
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Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
Thu 26 Jan 2023
A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain
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