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Science In Action Episodes

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    Gravitational waves and black holes

    Gravitational waves from colliding supermassive black holes

  2. New variants of SARS-Cov2

    SARS-Cov2: UK and South African new variants

  3. Coping with Covid

    Making sense of a year of confusion

  4. A year with Covid -19

    Looking back on how the virus emerged and the scientific response

  5. Covid -19 – Mutations are normal

    Viral mutations happen all the time but we still need to be wary of their impact.

  6. The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus

    Around three-quarters of the Brazilian city’s population are thought to have been infected

  7. Freak weather getting even freakier

    This year has seen record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, and now an Australian heatwave

  8. Vaccines – the Covid confusion

    The problems with incomplete or contradictory trial data published by press release.

  9. Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity

    After infection or vaccination immunity to the virus may be long lasting

  10. Covid-19 defeats US Marines

    The virus spread amongst recruits despite a range of thorough precautions

  11. Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans

    What does transmission of coronavirus from mink to humans mean for the future vaccine?

  12. Osiris Rex stows asteroid material

    Successful closure of lid on Osiris Rex spacecraft

  13. Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid

    Osiris Rex probe touches asteroid Bennu to sample secrets of the early solar system

  14. Covid-19 mortality

    Why is there such a range in the number of deaths from Covid -19 between countries?

  15. Do Covid–19 mutations matter?

    Results from the most detailed investigation to date into SARS –CoV-2 virus mutations

  16. Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?

    The world’s largest study of Covid-19 transmission shows children have a major role.

  17. Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission

    They are only designed to prevent disease developing, none have been tested against spread

  18. Malaria resistance breakthrough

    Discovered in East Africa, the finding holds promise for completely new treatments.

  19. Covid -19 science versus politics

    Are the politicians finally coming round to the scientist’s views on the way forward?

  20. Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?

    More than 2 million people live around this volcano, which has become more active

  21. Covid-19 therapy controversy

    Is convalescent plasma really a β€˜tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19?

  22. Trouble in Greenland

    Has the loss from Greenland’s vast ice sheet reached a tipping point?

  23. Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine

    Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine.

  24. Counting the heat health threat from climate change

    Huge death toll from rising temperatures projected for century’s end.

  25. NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake

    NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars

  26. Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people

    The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.

  27. How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?

    New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.

  28. Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test

    African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method

  29. Covid -19 and Children

    Why a minority become gravely ill is still a mystery

  30. Record high temperatures – in the Arctic

    Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit

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