Science In Action Podcast
The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
Episodes to download
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Heat death by volcano and other stories
Thursday
New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed
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Death in the rainforest
Thu 19 May 2022
Climate change may have doubled the death rate of rainforest trees over the last 50 years
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Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
Thu 12 May 2022
Astronomers image the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy
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Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
Thu 5 May 2022
Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta is set to sink beneath the sea by the end of the century
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The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
Thu 28 Apr 2022
The Indian subcontinent is roasting in a prolonged heatwave. Is climate change to blame?
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Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Solar geoengineering to curb climate change could worsen global malaria burden.
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How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Brain scanning study reveals how psilocybin can help people with severe depression
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Tsunami detective in Tonga
Thu 7 Apr 2022
What really happened in the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga in January?
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Radioactive Red Forest
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Are Russian troops in forests around Chernobyl receiving a dangerous dose of radiation?
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Why are Covid-19 cases rising in Hong Kong?
Fri 11 Mar 2022
The territory is experiencing a rapid increase in infections and deaths
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Covid -19 origins
Fri 4 Mar 2022
New analysis shows where inside the Wuhan market the virus first showed itself
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Reforming the ‘China Initiative’
Fri 25 Feb 2022
US scheme accused of persecuting scientists is to be refocused
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Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Messenger RNA used in vaccines against Covid-19 has been used to encourage bone healing
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Identifying a more infectious HIV variant
Thu 3 Feb 2022
A new form of HIV has been uncovered in the Netherlands.
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Tonga eruption – how it happened
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Why a small volcanic eruption had a global impact
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Have we got it wrong on Omicron?
Thu 13 Jan 2022
It seems to be no more viable than the earlier delta variant
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Corbevax – A vaccine for the world?
Thu 6 Jan 2022
Could a cheap and conventional vaccine for Covid-19 end the pandemic?
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2021: The year of variants
Thu 30 Dec 2021
The year began with Alpha, and ends with Omicron. What have we learnt?
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Omicron – mild or monster?
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Cases of the latest coronavirus variant are mild, so far – but that’s not the whole story
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Omicron’s rapid replication rate
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Omicron replicates seventy times faster than earlier variants.
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Can the weather trigger a volcano?
Thu 9 Dec 2021
The eruption of Semeru in Java was linked to heavy rain
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Omicron, racism and trust
Thu 2 Dec 2021
How the global political response to the new variant is hampering science in Africa
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Deliberately doomed dart
Thu 25 Nov 2021
The sacrificial space mission designed to protect the Earth from asteroid impact.
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The end for coal power?
Thu 18 Nov 2021
The fossil fuel is on target to be replaced with renewables in both India and China.
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Bambi got Covid
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Why the discovery of Covid 19 in white-tail deer has implications for climate policy
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Jet fuel from thin air
Thu 4 Nov 2021
A solar powered solution to emissions creates aviation fuel from atmospheric gases
