Science In Action

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Covid-19 therapy controversy
Is convalescent plasma really a ‘tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19?
27 Aug 2020,38 mins
Trouble in Greenland
Has the loss from Greenland’s vast ice sheet reached a tipping point?
20 Aug 2020,32 mins
Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine.
13 Aug 2020,37 mins
Counting the heat health threat from climate change
Huge death toll from rising temperatures projected for century’s end.
06 Aug 2020,32 mins
NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars
30 Jul 2020,35 mins
Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.
23 Jul 2020,34 mins
How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.
16 Jul 2020,34 mins
Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method
09 Jul 2020,30 mins
Covid -19 and Children
Why a minority become gravely ill is still a mystery
02 Jul 2020,31 mins
Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit
25 Jun 2020,26 mins
Covid -19 hope for severe cases
A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful
18 Jun 2020,34 mins
Food security, locusts and Covid -19
Efforts to eradicate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic
11 Jun 2020,27 mins
The medical complexity of Covid -19
Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart
04 Jun 2020,31 mins
Brazil’s Covid chaos
The number of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show
28 May 2020,32 mins
Covid-19 vaccines
More than a hundred vaccines are in development to fight the virus
21 May 2020,31 mins
Loosening lockdown
Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.
14 May 2020,37 mins
Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19
07 May 2020,43 mins
Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery
30 Apr 2020,48 mins
Presidents and pandemics
Why they don’t mix
23 Apr 2020,43 mins
Italy, getting Covid-19 under control
Tentative steps to relax the lockdown
16 Apr 2020,32 mins
Covid 19 - the threat to refugees
The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
09 Apr 2020,26 mins
Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19?
02 Apr 2020,32 mins
The science of social distancing
Why staying home is the best defence against Covid -19
26 Mar 2020,29 mins
Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
Research from Italy and China, shows many people have the coronavirus but no symptoms
19 Mar 2020,32 mins
Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
The pattern of transmission and prospects for drug treatments.
12 Mar 2020,38 mins
Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate.
05 Mar 2020,30 mins
Tracking coronavirus spread
More new cases of Covid-19 are now outside China than inside - how can we map the virus?
27 Feb 2020,30 mins
Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk
20 Feb 2020,26 mins
CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading
13 Feb 2020,26 mins
Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?
06 Feb 2020,26 mins