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Science In Action Episodes

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    Why Computers Forget

    Why computers forget, Hypnosis and medicine, Acid oceans, Sargassum seaweed

  2. Drones to prevent poaching

    Drones used for conservation; monitoring forests; looking for orangutans; Ants in Space.

  3. Antarctic Ice Shelves Melting

    Satellite data reveal the large ice loss from the floating Antarctic Shelves

  4. Scientists 3D Print Cars

    Scientists have 3D printed a replica of a vintage 1965 Shelby Cobra sports car

  5. Defining the Anthropocene

    We have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, but when did it start?

  6. Self-cleaning Materials

    A self-cleaning coating for delicate cashmere using solar-power chemistry

  7. Energy, Water and Food

    The growing conflict between access to fresh water, food production and energy generation

  8. Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

    How a changing climate is affecting the spread and behaviour of infectious diseases

  9. Ocean Plastic

    New figures for the amount of plastic entering the worlds' oceans

  10. Chimpanzee Language

    New insights into the complexity of chimpanzee language

  11. Viruses and Chronic Gut Disease

    Viruses living in the gut may have a role in inflammatory bowel disease

  12. Latest from Rosetta

    The latest understanding of Comet 67P from Rosetta’s instruments

  13. Approaching Pluto

    NASA's New Horizons probe gets set to examine Pluto after a 9 year trip

  14. Antibiotic Discovery

    A new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant infections has been found

  15. Science in 2014

    We look back through 50 years of archives and ask what 2015 promises for science.

  16. The Space Special

    Indian spacecraft enter Mars’ orbit, Rosetta lands on a comet and other space stories

  17. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

    Conference topics include Arctic sea ice and exciting sounds from Mars

  18. Results from Rosetta

    Rosetta's ROSINA instrument looks at the water in the atmosphere on Comet 67P

  19. African Soil Report

    Unhealthy soil is prevalent across sub-Saharan Africa

  20. Air Pollution in Beijing

    A new study looks at what is causing severe air pollution over Beijing

  21. Early Results from Philae

    Philae's COSAC instrument detects organic materials on Comet 67P

  22. Fifty Years of Science in Action

    Sir Paul Nurse, virologist Wendy Barclay and Nasa's Ellen Stofan on 50 years of science

  23. Rosetta Landing Preparations

    Rosetta's probe Philae gets ready for the first ever comet-landing

  24. Driverless Cars Special

    Car crashes kill 1.2 million people each year. Could robots be better than human drivers?

  25. Powerful Microscopy

    Nobel Laureate-led team develop microscopy methods to film cell activity.

  26. Sun Research

    What the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) satellite can tell us about the sun

  27. Nobel Prizes 2014

    The 2014 Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry are announced

  28. HIV in Africa

    The origin of the HIV pandemic has been traced to the 1920s in the city of Kinshasa

  29. Indian Mars Mission

    India is the first Asian country to successfully place a satellite into Mars' orbit

  30. NASA Human Space Flight

    US Space Agency is back in the astronaut transport business

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