Science In Action

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

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Fusion milestone
Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines
15 Dec 2022,33 mins
Ancient warmth in Greenland
Climate change in the Arctic
08 Dec 2022,31 mins
COVID spreads in China
COVID spreads in China
01 Dec 2022,34 mins
A distant planet’s atmosphere
The chemical composition of planet WASP-39b's atmosphere, 700 light years away
24 Nov 2022,28 mins
Online harassment of Covid scientists
Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats
17 Nov 2022,27 mins
Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified
10 Nov 2022,30 mins
What peat can tell us about our future
Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.
03 Nov 2022,26 mins
Seismic events on Mars
New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution.
27 Oct 2022,26 mins
The most powerful explosion ever recorded
A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed
20 Oct 2022,27 mins
Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders
13 Oct 2022,31 mins
Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements
06 Oct 2022,30 mins
The final moments of DART
Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth
29 Sep 2022,26 mins
Should we mine the deep sea?
A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.
22 Sep 2022,26 mins
Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.
15 Sep 2022,29 mins
The genetics of human intelligence
A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development
11 Sep 2022,26 mins
The China heatwave and the new normal
The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere
01 Sep 2022,28 mins
Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations
25 Aug 2022,26 mins
Deadly drought
The gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought
18 Aug 2022,28 mins
Icelandic volcano erupts again
Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption.
11 Aug 2022,28 mins
Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells
04 Aug 2022,29 mins
The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time
28 Jul 2022,27 mins
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?
21 Jul 2022,29 mins
First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
A sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope.
14 Jul 2022,31 mins
Long Covid ‘brain fog’
New insights into the cause of Long Covid ‘brain fog’
07 Jul 2022,30 mins
Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities
30 Jun 2022,32 mins
Monster microbe
Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.
23 Jun 2022,34 mins
Thirty years after the Earth Summit
Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?
16 Jun 2022,29 mins
Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
A medical scan which reveals where HIV and other viruses hide in the body.
09 Jun 2022,29 mins
Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.
02 Jun 2022,29 mins
Heat death by volcano and other stories
New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed
26 May 2022,29 mins