Science In Action Episodes Episode guide
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23/01/2025 GMT
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ brings you all the week's science news.
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16/01/2025 GMT
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ brings you all the week's science news.
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Science in Action
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ brings you all the week's science news.
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Science in Action
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ brings you all the week's science news.
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5 Years of Covid (part 1/2)
Five years on from the emergence of Sars CoV-2, what have we learned?
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Sun Grazing
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
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
How a single mutation in bovine H5N1 flu can make it prefer human cells.
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Fifty years of Charm
Why November 1974 became known as the β€November Revolutionβ€ in particle physics
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Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms
Every 2024 Atlantic hurricane was intensified by warming climate, with categories raised.
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Drastic plastic reductions
Machine learning models suggest pathways to reduce global plastic waste by 91% by 2050.
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New ways to study coronaviruses
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
The devastating floods around Valencia are easily attributable to climate change.
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Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities
Does the famous Betelgeuse have an orbiting companion, hidden in plain sight?
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Marvels of life and death
As fish farming impacts grow, a look at some clever life-hacks at the extremes.
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Nobel convergence
A look at the stories behind the Nobel science prizes announced this week.
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Excesses of rain
How much did climate change drive storm Helene?
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Historic weather extremes revealed using tree-rings
The jet stream has shaped extreme weather, influencing harvests, wildfires and epidemics
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Flash floods in the Sahara
The Sahara has been experiencing unusually heavy rainfall due to an extratropical cyclone
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A landslide-induced megatsunami in Greenland
The 200-metre-high tsunami sloshed between the cliffs of Dickson Fjord for nine days
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Concerning viruses found in fur farmed animals
A survey of diseased animals from fur farms has revealed potentially threatening viruses
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Wow! A mystery signal solved
In 1977 astronomers recorded a strange radio transmission, perhaps even from aliens.
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Fisheries mismanagement uncovered
Fishery assessment models overestimate the sustainability of the world’s fisheries.
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The spread of rabies into Cape fur seals
In June this year there was the first detected occurrence of rabies in Cape fur seals.
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Detecting undetected bird flu cases
Cases of bird flu in farm workers in the US may be going underreported.
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Examining Nasa's new evidence for Martian life
Mars rock found that may indicate it hosted microbial life billions of years ago
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The human cost of the decline of nature’s carcass cleaners
The loss of vultures in India may be responsible for half a million human deaths.
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Destination Asteroid Apophis
The ESA is starting preparatory work for its next planetary defence mission.
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Hurricane Beryl’s trail of destruction
Hurricane Beryl hit the Caribbean, before moving into Mexico and then Texas.
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Cleaner mining, cleaner batteries
Science in Action is at the UK's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.