Science In Action

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

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Long-term Effects of Bhopal Chemical Disaster
Report on incurable long-term health effects of the Bhopal chemical disaster 12 years ago
31 Jan 1997,29 mins
Oldest Tools made by Man's Ancestors
Preshistoric technology used to make 2.5 million-year-old stone tools found in Ethiopia
24 Jan 1997,29 mins
Trans-Species Transplantation Ban in UK
Pig-to-human organ transplants banned by UK because of possibility of viral infections
17 Jan 1997,28 mins
Predictions of Better Weather Forecasts
Will the Atlantic storm chasers of Fastex improve our weather forecasts?
10 Jan 1997,29 mins
First Wheat Harvest in Space
First wheat grown in space is tasty news for astronauts of the future
20 Dec 1996,28 mins
Science in Action Listeners' Questions
Special edition where a panel of experts answer scientific questions sent in by listeners
19 Dec 1996,28 mins
Diverse Origins of Modern Man
Early human evolution involved multiple hominid species in Asia as well as Europe
13 Dec 1996,29 mins
Turtle Highways Discovered in the Pacific Ocean
How leatherback turtles travel long distances along mysterious migration corridors
06 Dec 1996,28 mins
Testing a new treatment Model for Muscular Dystrophy
A replacement found for a missing protein in muscular dystrophy in mice
29 Nov 1996,28 mins
Cluster Project could still Take Off
Costs of rebuilding Cluster project to probe the solar winds and magnetic weather in space
22 Nov 1996,28 mins
A Possible Common Vertebrate Ancestor
Could a tiny eel-like fossil creature be the ancestor of all vertebrates?
15 Nov 1996,28 mins
Global Surveyor Mission to Mars Launches
New space probe sets off to map the whole of Mars and carry out experiments
08 Nov 1996,28 mins
British Support for Claims of Life on Mars
Britons find possible evidence of life on Mars in two meteorites found in the Antarctic
01 Nov 1996,29 mins
Small Feathered Dinosaur Found in China
A bidpedal dinosaur with downy feathers on its back lived in China 135 million years ago
25 Oct 1996,28 mins
Methane Hydrate from under the Sea
Large methane hydrate deposits have been discovered on the seabed off north-west USA
18 Oct 1996,29 mins
Meet the Nobel Science Prize-Winners
Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Chemistry and Physics go to research from as early as 1970s
11 Oct 1996,28 mins
Link between Hormone and Vulnerability to HIV
Do contraceptives containing progesterone increase the likelihood of HIV infection?
04 Oct 1996,28 mins
New CJD Marker enables Diagnosis
New marker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease found in spinal fluid helps diagnosis
27 Sep 1996,27 mins
A Better View of the Birth of a Galaxy
The Hubble Space Telescope's new pictures show how galaxies might form
06 Sep 1996,28 mins
BSE Epidemic 'will be over by 2001'
The BSE epidemic years away but the worst is already over, report Oxford researchers
30 Aug 1996,28 mins
Funding Cuts Result in unsafe UK Labs, claim Scientists
Save British Science group blames unsafe university labs on government funding cuts
22 Aug 1996,27 mins
New Report 20 Years after Seveso Disaster
Unusual sex ratio reported in births in Seveso in the first years after dioxin accident
15 Aug 1996,27 mins
Are these the Remains of Microbes from Mars?
Nasa's claims that fossils of micro-organisms have been found in a meteorite from Mars
08 Aug 1996,28 mins
Early Bird is 115 million years old
Spanish bird fossil is the first specimen with alulae or wing flaps for slow flight
01 Aug 1996,27 mins
Partial Repair of spinal Injury in Rats
Research into repairing the spinal cord with nerve fibres in rats raises hopes for humans
25 Jul 1996,27 mins
Galileo's Pictures of Jupiter and its Moons
Are these the best ever pictures of Jupiter?
18 Jul 1996,27 mins
1,500th Edition of Science in Action
Creating elusive W particles at CERN to test particle theories
11 Jul 1996,30 mins
Why Don't Europeans Carry Neanderthal Genes?
Modern humans don't seem to have interbred with Neanderthals, report geneticists
04 Jul 1996,27 mins
How Cholera Bacteria turn nasty
Cholera bacterium produces harmful toxin only when it is infected by a virus
27 Jun 1996,27 mins
Lake Found under the Antarctic Ice
Lake Vostok discovered 4 km under the Antarctic ice sheet, below the Russian base
20 Jun 1996,27 mins