Science in Action
The latest science research and news stories from all over the world.
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnb
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- The latest science research and news stories from all over the world.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-07 05:25
- last episode published
- 2025-03-06 21:00
- publication frequency
- 7.3 days
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- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
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- Number of Episodes
- 440
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-06 | As the new administration in the US continues to make cuts to government agencies and scientific funding, NOAA – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been particularly trimmed. This week the professional organisation for weather fore... |
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| 2025-02-27 | Just two weeks ago the world learned of an asteroid that had an almost 3 percent chance of striking earth in less than a decade. Astronomers kept looking, and a team including Olivier Hainaut at ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Palanar, in Chile, have man... |
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| 2025-02-20 | The Lancet this week features a paper calling for a financially sustainable network of influenza labs and experts across Europe. Marion Koopmans was one of the 32 expert signatures, and she describes how Europe needs to learn some lessons from the mode... |
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| 2025-02-13 | This week the recently spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 had its odds of missing us “spectacularly” slashed by 1 percentage point. Still nothing to worry about maintains Patrick Michel of the International Asteroid Warning Network, and he expects that with bet... |
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| 2025-02-06 | The mystery swarm of small earthquakes near the island of Santorini beg for more data collection. Also, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US goes offline and whales learn song like kids learn language.Presenter: Roland P... |
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| 2025-01-30 | Asteroid Bennu yields a watery pool of history, curtesy of an international team of scientists including the Natural History Museum in London’s Sara Russell. Also, in a week of tumultuous changes to federal funding and programmes, some voices of US sci... |
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| 2025-01-23 | 30 percent of the Arctic is switching from carbon sink to carbon source. But could future fertilizer be made deep underground using less resources? Also, how and perhaps why globally 2024 had the highest number of fatal landslides in over 20 years, and... |
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| 2025-01-16 | New types of snake-bite anti-venoms are designed by AI. Also, how much meat did human ancestors eat? How the Baltic Nord Stream gas pipeline rupture of 2022 was the biggest single release of methane ever caused by humans, and that Pluto met Charon, not... |
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| 2025-01-09 | H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the USA and this week claimed its first human life in North America - an elderly patient in Louisiana infected by backyard poultry. But last week, Sonja Olsen, Associate Director for Preparedness and Res... |
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| 2025-01-02 | Sars CoV-2 has been with us for five years. In the second 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 ... |
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