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Science In Action Episodes

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    Darwin dumped from Indian classrooms

    The exclusion of Darwinism from the curriculum prompts protests in India

  2. The truth about the Sudan biolab

    Khartoum’s National Public Health Laboratory is caught up in the Sudanese conflict.

  3. Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

    Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

  4. Bird flu: The global threat

    H5N1 avian flu is racing across the world. What can be done to control it?

  5. Chasing tornados in the American mid-West

    Chasing tornados in the American mid-West – the science behind the current outbreaks.

  6. Gene editing breakthrough

    New technique to correct gene errors in sick patients

  7. Animals at the Wuhan Market

    What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic?

  8. Return of Cyclone Freddy

    Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month.

  9. Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril

    Human Genome Editing: curing genetic disease and ensuring it's safe and available to all.

  10. Drought worsens in East Africa

    Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.

  11. Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar

    Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.

  12. CRISPR & bioethics

    He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018

  13. Turkey-Syria earthquake

    Turkey’s most powerful earthquake on record

  14. Science on ice

    The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter’s icy moons

  15. Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink

    A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain

  16. Climate science activism

    What happens when climate scientists take to the streets?

  17. Atmospheric rivers

    The phenomenon driving California’s extreme weather

  18. One year on from the Tonga eruption

    We take a look at everything we’ve learnt since the Tonga volcano erupted a year ago.

  19. The James Webb Space Telescope: The first six months

    What have scientists learned since Nasa launched its revolutionary telescope?

  20. Mosquito pesticide failing

    Mosquito pesticide failing

  21. Fusion milestone

    Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines

  22. Ancient warmth in Greenland

    Climate change in the Arctic

  23. COVID spreads in China

    COVID spreads in China

  24. A distant planet’s atmosphere

    The chemical composition of planet WASP-39b's atmosphere, 700 light years away

  25. Online harassment of Covid scientists

    Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats

  26. Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients

    Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified

  27. What peat can tell us about our future

    Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.

  28. Seismic events on Mars

    New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution.

  29. The most powerful explosion ever recorded

    A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed

  30. Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats

    Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders

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