Science In Action
By BBC World Service
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Ruud Laan
Oct 20, 2025
Have been listening this podcast for many years now and it is always very interesting. Please reconsider and continue this podcast!
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Oct 16, 2025
A must listen for anyone interested in genuine science and who doesn't like being patronised. It's criminal that this series is being cancelled.
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Aug 4, 2018
More BBC hand ringing and doom mongering. Give it a rest.
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The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
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How science got here, and where next
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Coral extinctions and chalky unknowns
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Paris agreement impacts and drought realities
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Old faces and big spaces in small places
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Autism and the epigenetics of early brain development
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Stephen Hawking gets it right again
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Asteroids, comets and where to find them
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Why is Afghanistan so vulnerable to earthquakes?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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How Fear Spreads
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Not cold fusion all over again
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Vaccine study retraction request rejected
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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An end to allergic reactions?
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Getting ahead of tsunamis
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Discovering Betelgeuse’s Betelbuddy
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Biggest black hole merger observed
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Tracking ocean circulation systems
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Bird flu surges in Cambodia
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Half a universe once lost now found
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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The first solar polar pictures
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Thirteen months to a chip off the moon
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May 29, 2025 |
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WHO Pandemic Agreement reached
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May 22, 2025 |
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Vaccinating rabies’ reservoir dogs
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May 15, 2025 |
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Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding
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May 08, 2025 |
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Scientists of the world unite
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May 01, 2025 |
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Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Any more for Moore’s Law?
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Researching pain, painlessly
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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An uncertain forecast for meteorology
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Who runs science?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Hits from space
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Make science great again
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Arctic carbon starting to flip
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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First US avian flu fatality
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Five years of Covid: Part two
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Five years of Covid: Part one
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Sun Grazing
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Warming oceans kill millions of birds
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Fifty years of Charm
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Drastic plastic reductions
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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New ways to study coronaviruses
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Global warming strikes again
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Marvels of life and death
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Nobel convergence
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Excesses of rain
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Historic weather extremes revealed using tree-rings
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Flash floods in the Sahara
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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A landslide-induced megatsunami in Greenland
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Concerning viruses found in fur farmed animals
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Wow! A mystery signal solved
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Fisheries mismanagement uncovered
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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The spread of rabies into Cape fur seals
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Detecting undetected bird flu cases
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Examining Nasa's new evidence for Martian life
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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The human cost of the decline of nature’s carcass cleaners
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Destination Asteroid Apophis
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Hurricane Beryl’s trail of destruction
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Cleaner mining, cleaner batteries
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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On the road to halting HIV
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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China: Scientific superpower
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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US bird flu response warning
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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A humungous temporary tentacle
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Trusting AI with science
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May 30, 2024 |
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The roots of fentanyl addiction
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May 23, 2024 |
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Aurora Bore-WOW-lis
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May 16, 2024 |
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Changing blood types and whale grammar
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May 09, 2024 |
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Crossover infections
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May 02, 2024 |
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An armada for asteroid Apophis?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Unexpected black hole in our galaxy
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Bird flu in Antarctica
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Earthquake in Taiwan
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Star for a day
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Out of Africa
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Impacts of global warming
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The first stars in the universe
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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One million genomes in two dimensions
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Largest ever covid safety study
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Climate scientist wins defamation case
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Particle physics v climate change
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Unethical data gathering in China
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Drilling into the past
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Swine fever in South East Asia
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Seeking supernovas
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Tackling tuberculosis in South Africa
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Following in the footsteps of ancient humans
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Volcanic eruption lights up Iceland
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The science of morning sickness
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Can carbon capture live up to its hype?
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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All aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Fires in the Pantanal wetlands
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Volcanic rumblings in Iceland
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Sounds of the Cape
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Climate emergency
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Bird flu reaches Antarctic region
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Alarm at Campi Flegrei, Italy
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Devastating earthquakes hit Afghanistan
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The best and the worst
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Trilobite dinner
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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More likely, more intense
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Deadly floods in Derna
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Returning to the North Pole
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Drowning coastal ecosystems
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Brain-computer interfaces
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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The science behind the Hawaii fire
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Pandemic surveillance system at risk
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Bird Flu is back
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Ocean current collapse
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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On the edge of a new volcano
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Europe’s heatwave death toll
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Melting of Greenland ice sheet
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Preparing for crises
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Human embryo models
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Oceans in hot water?
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The beginnings of us
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Vaccinating condors against bird flu
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Brightest supernova in a decade
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May 25, 2023 |
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Return of the Wildfires
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May 18, 2023 |
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Human genome goes global
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May 11, 2023 |
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Darwin dumped from Indian classrooms
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May 04, 2023 |
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The truth about the Sudan biolab
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Bird flu: The global threat
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Chasing tornados in the American mid-West
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Gene editing breakthrough
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Animals at the Wuhan Market
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Return of Cyclone Freddy
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Drought worsens in East Africa
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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CRISPR & bioethics
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Turkey-Syria earthquake
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Science on ice
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Climate science activism
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Atmospheric rivers
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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One year on from the Tonga eruption
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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The James Webb Space Telescope: The first six months
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Mosquito pesticide failing
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Fusion milestone
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Ancient warmth in Greenland
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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COVID spreads in China
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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A distant planet’s atmosphere
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Online harassment of Covid scientists
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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What peat can tell us about our future
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Seismic events on Mars
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The most powerful explosion ever recorded
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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The final moments of DART
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Should we mine the deep sea?
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The genetics of human intelligence
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The China heatwave and the new normal
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Deadly drought
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Icelandic volcano erupts again
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Long Covid ‘brain fog’
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Monster microbe
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Thirty years after the Earth Summit
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Heat death by volcano and other stories
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May 26, 2022 |
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Death in the rainforest
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May 19, 2022 |
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Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
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May 12, 2022 |
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Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
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May 05, 2022 |
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The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Tsunami detective in Tonga
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Radioactive Red Forest
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Warming world
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Covid in the sewers
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Why are Covid-19 cases rising in Hong Kong?
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Covid -19 origins
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Reforming the ‘China Initiative’
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Identifying a more infectious HIV variant
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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The roots of Long Covid
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Tonga eruption – how it happened
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Have we got it wrong on Omicron?
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Corbevax – A vaccine for the world?
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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2021: The year of variants
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Omicron – mild or monster?
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Omicron’s rapid replication rate
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Can the weather trigger a volcano?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Omicron, racism and trust
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Deliberately doomed dart
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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The end for coal power?
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Bambi got Covid
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Jet fuel from thin air
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Red blood cells’ surprising immune function
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Wetlands under attack
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Youngest rock samples from the moon
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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New evidence for Sars-CoV-2’s origin in bats
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Ebola can remain dormant for five years
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Hurricane season intensifies
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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World’s first DNA Covid vaccine
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Seismic citizen science in Hispaniola
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Methane: A climate solution?
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Record-shattering weather
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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The earliest traces of animal life on earth.
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Your molecular machinery, now in 3D
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Science when the funding dries up
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Human induced climate change heats up fast
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Insects in incredible detail
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Tales of unexpected DNA data
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Doubling Earth’s energy imbalance
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Evolving viral variant trickery
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Zoonotic hotspots and where to find them
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Nyiragongo eruption
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May 27, 2021 |
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Robot revolution
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May 20, 2021 |
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Covid and clean air
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May 13, 2021 |
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Africa’s oldest burial
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May 06, 2021 |
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Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Exponential increase in Indian covid cases
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Rolling out the vaccines faster
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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On the trail of rare blood clots
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Science on the side of a new volcano
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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International science at sea
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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A shooting star parked on your driveway
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Waste not, want not
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Weird weather
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Perseverance approaches Mars
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Mixing Covid vaccines
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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New Covid vaccine
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Saving the Northern White Rhino
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Gravitational waves and black holes
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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New variants of SARS-Cov2
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Coping with Covid
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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A year with Covid -19
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Freak weather getting even freakier
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Vaccines – the Covid confusion
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Covid-19 defeats US Marines
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Covid-19 mortality
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Do Covid–19 mutations matter?
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Malaria resistance breakthrough
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Covid -19 science versus politics
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Covid-19 therapy controversy
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Trouble in Greenland
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Counting the heat health threat from climate change
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Covid -19 and Children
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Covid -19 hope for severe cases
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Food security, locusts and Covid -19
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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The medical complexity of Covid -19
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Brazil’s Covid chaos
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May 28, 2020 |
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Covid-19 vaccines
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May 21, 2020 |
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Loosening lockdown
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May 14, 2020 |
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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
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May 07, 2020 |
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Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Presidents and pandemics
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Italy, getting Covid-19 under control
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Covid 19 - the threat to refugees
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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The science of social distancing
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Tracking coronavirus spread
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Understanding the new coronavirus
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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New Coronavirus
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Mount Taal volcano
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Australia’s extreme fire season
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Adapting California
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Gaming climate change
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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White Island volcano eruption
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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CRISPR babies scandal – more details
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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New malaria target
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Politics and Amazonia’s fires
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Australia burning
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Climate in crisis
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Wildfires and winds in California
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Malaria's origins and a potential new treatment
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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From batteries to distant worlds
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Drought likely to follow India’s floods
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Global climate inaction
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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South East Asia choking - again
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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Embryoids from stem cells
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Nanotube computer says hello
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Amazonian fires likely to worsen
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Keeping tabs on nuclear weapons
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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The snowball effect of Arctic fires
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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The human danger – for sharks
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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The moon landing and another big space anniversary
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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'Free' water and electricity for the world?
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Analysing the European heatwave
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Is climate change driving Europe’s current heatwave?
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Iran’s nuclear plans
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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South Asia heatwave and climate change
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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US foetal tissue research ban
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Jun 06, 2019 |