Science In Action

By BBC World Service

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The BBC brings you all the week's science news.


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