Science in Action
The latest science research and news stories from all over the world.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnb
- Description
- The latest science research and news stories from all over the world.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-27 14:17
- last episode published
- 2024-12-26 21:00
- publication frequency
- 7.31 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
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- Number of Episodes
- 430
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| 2024-12-26 | Sars CoV-2 has been with us for five years. In the first of a 2-part special, Science in Action asks how well was science prepared for it? And are we any better prepared for the next one?Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield, with Debbie Kil... |
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| 2024-12-19 | New insights into how our skin learns to tolerate and co-exist with bacteria on its surface show great potential for the development of simpler and less invasive vaccines. Stanford University’s Djenet Bousbaine has published two papers in Nature detail... |
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| 2024-12-12 | Heatwaves in the pacific ocean have had a devastating effect on seabird populations in the north eastern US. Julia Parrish and colleagues publish this week 4 million deaths of Alaskan common murres attributable to rising water temperatures during 2014-... |
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| 2024-12-05 | Scientists have found that just one mutation in the current H5N1 virus in cattle can switch its preference from avian to human receptors. Jim Paulson and colleagues at the Scripps Institute did not use the whole virus to investigate this, but proteins ... |
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| 2024-11-28 | November 1974 became known as the “November Revolution” in particle physics. Two teams on either side of the US discovered the same particle - the “J/psi” meson. On the "J" team, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sau Lan Wu and colleagues were sma... |
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| 2024-11-21 | It’s hard not to have noticed the intensity of storms around the world this year, not least the Atlantic storms that battered the eastern US. A new study, using a new technique, confirms their attribution to climate change, and goes further, finding th... |
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| 2024-11-14 | Before December, the United Nations aims to have a global treaty in place covering efforts to limit global plastic production and pollution. In a paper in the journal Science, a team of scientists have used machine learning to estimate what happens by ... |
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| 2024-11-07 | Many coronaviruses exist in nature that we don’t know much about. We don’t even know how and whether most of them might bind to human cells. Research published in Nature, by scientists at Wuhan and Washington Universities, describes a new way of design... |
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| 2024-10-31 | This week at least 150 people have been killed due to devastating flash flooding sweeping through areas of Valencia in Spain. Ana Camarasa Belmonte, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Valencia, has been studying the flood patterns and... |
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| 2024-10-24 | Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most famous stars in the northern night sky, has varied in brightness with an elusive pattern ever since observations began. Many theories exist as to why it ebbs and flows with apparently two distinct rhythms – one... |
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