Science In Action

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

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Early Results from Philae
Philae's COSAC instrument detects organic materials on Comet 67P
20 Nov 2014,28 mins
Fifty Years of Science in Action
Sir Paul Nurse, virologist Wendy Barclay and Nasa's Ellen Stofan on 50 years of science
13 Nov 2014,28 mins
Rosetta Landing Preparations
Rosetta's probe Philae gets ready for the first ever comet-landing
06 Nov 2014,28 mins
Driverless Cars Special
Car crashes kill 1.2 million people each year. Could robots be better than human drivers?
30 Oct 2014,28 mins
Powerful Microscopy
Nobel Laureate-led team develop microscopy methods to film cell activity.
23 Oct 2014,28 mins
Sun Research
What the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) satellite can tell us about the sun
16 Oct 2014,28 mins
Nobel Prizes 2014
The 2014 Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry are announced
09 Oct 2014,28 mins
HIV in Africa
The origin of the HIV pandemic has been traced to the 1920s in the city of Kinshasa
02 Oct 2014,28 mins
Indian Mars Mission
India is the first Asian country to successfully place a satellite into Mars' orbit
25 Sep 2014,28 mins
NASA Human Space Flight
US Space Agency is back in the astronaut transport business
18 Sep 2014,28 mins
Europa's Tectonic Plates
Tectonic plates made of ice are found on Jupiter’s moon Europa
11 Sep 2014,28 mins
'Dreadnought' Dino
Super massive dinosaur species discovered in southern Argentina
04 Sep 2014,28 mins
Ebola Virus Sequenced
Genetic sequencing of Ebola virus holds clues to origins of latest outbreak
28 Aug 2014,28 mins
Icelandic Volcano
Intense seismic activity leads to increased risk of Bárðarbunga volcano erupting
21 Aug 2014,28 mins
Chile Earthquake Explained
New evidence suggests that the potential for large earthquakes in Chile remains high
14 Aug 2014,28 mins
Rosetta Rendezvous
The Rosetta probe has arrived at comet 67P and is sending back new data
07 Aug 2014,28 mins
Geysers on Enceladus
Gigantic geysers erupting in Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, could be a sign of life
31 Jul 2014,28 mins
GM Crops in Africa
Apathy amongst African politicians about GM technology is costing the economy.
24 Jul 2014,28 mins
ISEE-3 Reboot Project
Crowdfunded space hackers have managed to restart an old comet-chasing NASA satellite
17 Jul 2014,28 mins
Cosmic Dust
Explosion of stars produces cosmic dust that is thought to eventually form planets
10 Jul 2014,28 mins
Earthquakes in Oklahoma
Waste water pumping following oil extraction causes earthquakes in Oklahoma
03 Jul 2014,28 mins
Ancient Namibian Reef
The discovery of an ancient Namibian reef suggests animals evolved sooner than thought
26 Jun 2014,28 mins
Looking for ET
Using methane models to detect life on other planets
19 Jun 2014,28 mins
Indian Ocean Extreme Weather
Flooding and droughts will become more common in countries surrounding the Indian Ocean
12 Jun 2014,28 mins
Brazil Leads CO2 Emissions Reduction
Brazil is the global leader in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, states new research
05 Jun 2014,28 mins
Searching the Ocean
Looking for the MH370 plane on the sea bed is revealing how little we know of the abyss
29 May 2014,28 mins
Californian Quakes
Research reveals an alternative to San Francisco's 'next big one'
22 May 2014,28 mins
The First Americans
The 13,000 year old remains of a teenager may teach scientists about the first Americans
15 May 2014,28 mins
Colin Pillinger Dies
British planetary scientist Colin Pillinger has died following a brain haemorrhage
08 May 2014,28 mins
Birds in Chernobyl
Birds adapting to radiation in Chernobyl
01 May 2014,28 mins