Main content

Science In Action Episodes

  1.

    Covid -19 hope for severe cases

    A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful

  2. Food security, locusts and Covid -19

    Efforts to eradicate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic

  3. The medical complexity of Covid -19

    Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart

  4. Brazil’s Covid chaos

    The number of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show

  5. Covid-19 vaccines

    More than a hundred vaccines are in development to fight the virus

  6. Loosening lockdown

    Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.

  7. Covid -19 new hope from blood tests

    Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19

  8. Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19

    Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery

  9. Presidents and pandemics

    Why they don’t mix

  10. Italy, getting Covid-19 under control

    Tentative steps to relax the lockdown

  11. Covid 19 - the threat to refugees

    The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps

  12. Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins

    As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19?

  13. The science of social distancing

    Why staying home is the best defence against Covid -19

  14. Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?

    Research from Italy and China, shows many people have the coronavirus but no symptoms

  15. Covid -19 how infectious is it really?

    The pattern of transmission and prospects for drug treatments.

  16. Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change

    Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate.

  17. Tracking coronavirus spread

    More new cases of Covid-19 are now outside China than inside - how can we map the virus?

  18. Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk

    Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk

  19. CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak

    A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading

  20. Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?

    Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?

  21. Understanding the new coronavirus

    Analysis of the impact of the new virus

  22. New Coronavirus

    What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China

  23. Mount Taal volcano

    Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning

  24. Australia’s extreme fire season

    2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires

  25. Adapting California

    Living with the threat of fires and earthquakes.

  26. Gaming climate change

    Can a role-playing game improve climate negotiation outcomes?

  27. Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption

    How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami

  28. White Island volcano eruption

    Why a small eruption on White Island was so dangerous

  29. CRISPR babies scandal – more details

    Evidence for a series of scientific and ethical errors have emerged

  30. New malaria target

    Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. …
  10. 55