Science in Action Podcast
The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
Episodes to download
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Malaria resistance breakthrough
Yesterday
Discovered in East Africa, the finding holds promise for completely new treatments.
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Covid -19 science versus politics
Last Thursday
Are the politicians finally coming round to the scientist’s views on the way forward?
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Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
Thu 3 Sep 2020
More than 2 million people live around this volcano, which has become more active
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Covid-19 therapy controversy
Thu 27 Aug 2020
Is convalescent plasma really a ‘tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19?
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Trouble in Greenland
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Has the loss from Greenland’s vast ice sheet reached a tipping point?
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Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
Thu 13 Aug 2020
Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine.
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Counting the heat health threat from climate change
Thu 6 Aug 2020
Huge death toll from rising temperatures projected for century’s end.
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NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
Thu 30 Jul 2020
NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars
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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
Thu 23 Jul 2020
The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.
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How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
Thu 16 Jul 2020
New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.
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Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
Thu 9 Jul 2020
African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method
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Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
Thu 25 Jun 2020
Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit
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Covid -19 hope for severe cases
Thu 18 Jun 2020
A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful
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Food security, locusts and Covid -19
Thu 11 Jun 2020
Efforts to eradicate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic
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The medical complexity of Covid -19
Thu 4 Jun 2020
Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart
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Brazil’s Covid chaos
Thu 28 May 2020
The number of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show
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Covid-19 vaccines
Thu 21 May 2020
More than a hundred vaccines are in development to fight the virus
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Loosening lockdown
Thu 14 May 2020
Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.
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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
Thu 7 May 2020
Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19
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Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery
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Covid 19 - the threat to refugees
Thu 9 Apr 2020
The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
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Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
Thu 2 Apr 2020
As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19?
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The science of social distancing
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Why staying home is the best defence against Covid -19
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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
Thu 19 Mar 2020
Research from Italy and China, shows many people have the coronavirus but no symptoms
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Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
Thu 12 Mar 2020
The pattern of transmission and prospects for drug treatments.
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Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
Thu 5 Mar 2020
Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate.
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Tracking coronavirus spread
Thu 27 Feb 2020
More new cases of Covid-19 are now outside China than inside - how can we map the virus?
Gravitational Waves
Gravity and ripples in the fabric of space time - what do these mean for us?
