Science In Action Podcast
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã brings you all the week's science news.
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The James Webb Space Telescope: The first six months
Thu 29 Dec 2022
What have scientists learned since Nasa launched its revolutionary telescope?
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A distant planet’s atmosphere
Thu 24 Nov 2022
The chemical composition of planet WASP-39b's atmosphere, 700 light years away
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Online harassment of Covid scientists
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats
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Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified
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What peat can tell us about our future
Thu 3 Nov 2022
Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.
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Seismic events on Mars
Thu 27 Oct 2022
New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution.
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The most powerful explosion ever recorded
Thu 20 Oct 2022
A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed
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Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders
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Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
Thu 6 Oct 2022
We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements
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The final moments of DART
Thu 29 Sep 2022
Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth
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Should we mine the deep sea?
Thu 22 Sep 2022
A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.
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Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
Thu 15 Sep 2022
A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.
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The genetics of human intelligence
Sun 11 Sep 2022
A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development
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The China heatwave and the new normal
Thu 1 Sep 2022
The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere
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Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
Thu 25 Aug 2022
The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations
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Icelandic volcano erupts again
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption.
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Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
Thu 4 Aug 2022
Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells
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The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
Thu 28 Jul 2022
James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time
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Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
Thu 21 Jul 2022
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?
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First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
Thu 14 Jul 2022
A sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
Thu 30 Jun 2022
New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities
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Monster microbe
Thu 23 Jun 2022
Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.
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Thirty years after the Earth Summit
Thu 16 Jun 2022
Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?
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Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
Thu 9 Jun 2022
A medical scan which reveals where HIV and other viruses hide in the body.