Science In Action

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

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Understanding the new coronavirus
Analysis of the impact of the new virus
30 Jan 2020,33 mins
New Coronavirus
What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China
23 Jan 2020,26 mins
Mount Taal volcano
Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning
16 Jan 2020,26 mins
Australia’s extreme fire season
2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires
09 Jan 2020,26 mins
Adapting California
Living with the threat of fires and earthquakes.
02 Jan 2020,26 mins
Gaming climate change
Can a role-playing game improve climate negotiation outcomes?
26 Dec 2019,26 mins
Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami
19 Dec 2019,26 mins
White Island volcano eruption
Why a small eruption on White Island was so dangerous
12 Dec 2019,26 mins
CRISPR babies scandal – more details
Evidence for a series of scientific and ethical errors have emerged
05 Dec 2019,35 mins
New malaria target
Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance
28 Nov 2019,29 mins
Politics and Amazonia’s fires
Satellite data shows this year’s Amazon fires have been the worst since 2010.
21 Nov 2019,27 mins
Australia burning
To what extent is ‘Bush fire weather’ influenced by climate change?
14 Nov 2019,29 mins
Climate in crisis
Inaction on climate change while the impact of air pollution is likened to smoking
07 Nov 2019,29 mins
Wildfires and winds in California
How dry land and high winds are fuelling fires in California
31 Oct 2019,26 mins
Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?
Has a new era of computing finally arrived or not, or is it both at the same time?
24 Oct 2019,37 mins
Malaria's origins and a potential new treatment
How malaria jumped from great apes to humans and why Antarctica may hold a new treatment
17 Oct 2019,29 mins
From batteries to distant worlds
Nobel Prize wins for a range of well-known discoveries
10 Oct 2019,29 mins
Drought likely to follow India’s floods
Despite extreme rainfall, climate scientists predict drought in India within months.
03 Oct 2019,30 mins
Global climate inaction
The latest climate report look like earlier ones, where is the call to action?
26 Sep 2019,30 mins
South East Asia choking - again
Why even staying indoors offers no escape from fires across the region
19 Sep 2019,30 mins
Embryoids from stem cells
Embryoids from stem cells; water vapour in atmosphere of rocky exoplanet;
12 Sep 2019,26 mins
New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
An isotopic fingerprint is reported of a nuclear explosion in Russia last month
05 Sep 2019,34 mins
Nanotube computer says hello
A 16bit computer processor made of carbon nanotubes is unveiled to the world.
29 Aug 2019,26 mins
Amazonian fires likely to worsen
Is it going to be a particularly bad burning season for Brazil’s rainforest?
22 Aug 2019,29 mins
Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
Scientists investigate the precise physical events around last year’s lethal eruption.
15 Aug 2019,33 mins
Keeping tabs on nuclear weapons
Can science overcome the political impasse in nuclear proliferation policy?
08 Aug 2019,26 mins
The snowball effect of Arctic fires
The long term consequences of the intense burning across the region
01 Aug 2019,26 mins
The human danger – for sharks
A global appetite for shark meat and fins threatens these iconic predators
25 Jul 2019,30 mins
The moon landing and another big space anniversary
The comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 spectacularly crashed into Jupiter 25 years ago.
18 Jul 2019,29 mins
'Free' water and electricity for the world?
The solar panel which simultaneously produces electricity and purifies water
11 Jul 2019,29 mins