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2025-01-30

  Make Science Great Again

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...
  BBC World Service author
2025-01-23

  Arctic carbon starting to flip

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...
  BBC World Service author
2025-01-16

  AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids

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...
  BBC World Service author
2025-01-09

  First US avian flu fatality

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

  5 Years of Covid (part 2/2)

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 ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-12-26

  5 Years of Covid (part 1/2)

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...
  BBC World Service author
2024-12-19

  Sun Grazing

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...
  BBC World Service author
2024-12-12

  Warming oceans kill millions of birds

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

  Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans

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 ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-11-28

  Fifty years of Charm

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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