Science In Action Podcast
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã brings you all the week's science news.
Episodes to download
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CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
Thu 13 Feb 2020
A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading
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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
Thu 6 Feb 2020
Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?
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New Coronavirus
Thu 23 Jan 2020
What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China
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Mount Taal volcano
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning
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Australia’s extreme fire season
Thu 9 Jan 2020
2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires
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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
Thu 19 Dec 2019
How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami
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CRISPR babies scandal – more details
Thu 5 Dec 2019
Evidence for a series of scientific and ethical errors have emerged
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New malaria target
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance
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Politics and Amazonia’s fires
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Satellite data shows this year’s Amazon fires have been the worst since 2010.
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Australia burning
Thu 14 Nov 2019
To what extent is ‘Bush fire weather’ influenced by climate change?
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Climate in crisis
Thu 7 Nov 2019
Inaction on climate change while the impact of air pollution is likened to smoking
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Wildfires and winds in California
Thu 31 Oct 2019
How dry land and high winds are fuelling fires in California
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Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Has a new era of computing finally arrived or not, or is it both at the same time?
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Malaria's origins and a potential new treatment
Thu 17 Oct 2019
How malaria jumped from great apes to humans and why Antarctica may hold a new treatment
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From batteries to distant worlds
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Nobel Prize wins for a range of well-known discoveries
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Drought likely to follow India’s floods
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Despite extreme rainfall, climate scientists predict drought in India within months.
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Global climate inaction
Thu 26 Sep 2019
The latest climate report look like earlier ones, where is the call to action?
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South East Asia choking - again
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Why even staying indoors offers no escape from fires across the region
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Embryoids from stem cells
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Embryoids from stem cells; water vapour in atmosphere of rocky exoplanet;
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New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
Thu 5 Sep 2019
An isotopic fingerprint is reported of a nuclear explosion in Russia last month
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Nanotube computer says hello
Thu 29 Aug 2019
A 16bit computer processor made of carbon nanotubes is unveiled to the world.
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Amazonian fires likely to worsen
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Is it going to be a particularly bad burning season for Brazil’s rainforest?
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Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
Thu 15 Aug 2019
Scientists investigate the precise physical events around last year’s lethal eruption.
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Keeping tabs on nuclear weapons
Thu 8 Aug 2019
Can science overcome the political impasse in nuclear proliferation policy?
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The snowball effect of Arctic fires
Thu 1 Aug 2019
The long term consequences of the intense burning across the region
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The human danger – for sharks
Thu 25 Jul 2019
A global appetite for shark meat and fins threatens these iconic predators