Science In Action Podcast
The 蜜芽传媒 brings you all the week's science news.
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The first solar polar pictures
Thursday
ESA鈥檚 Solar Orbiter camera probe begins raising its orbit towards the sun鈥檚 poles
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Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?
Thu 5 Jun 2025
What is Fusarium graminearum and why were scientists allegedly smuggling it into the US?
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Thirteen months to a chip off the moon
Thu 29 May 2025
China鈥檚 audacious Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is underway
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WHO Pandemic Agreement reached
Thu 22 May 2025
124 countries have agreed on a global effort to fight future pandemic health threats.
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Vaccinating rabies鈥� reservoir dogs
Thu 15 May 2025
Can the WHO鈥檚 Zero by 2030 be achieved for dog-mediated rabies?
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Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding
Thu 8 May 2025
Trump signs executive order restricting funding to 鈥榙angerous鈥� biological research
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Scientists of the world unite
Thu 1 May 2025
Earth science in every direction from the European Geosciences Union鈥檚 2025 assembly
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Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Scientists find yet more data from early Covid to suggest zoonotic cross-over as origin.
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Any more for Moore鈥檚 Law?
Thu 17 Apr 2025
It's 60 years since Gordon Moore predicted computing power would double every two years
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Researching pain, painlessly
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Researchers grow a mini human pain pathway in a flask for testing pain painlessly
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Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth
Thu 3 Apr 2025
How Myanmar鈥檚 tragic earthquake left a 500km scar on earth's surface in just 90 seconds.
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Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations
Thu 27 Mar 2025
As the US halts all Covid related research, what is the impact on pandemic preparedness?
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Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Individual stories of those affected by the Trump administration's upheaval of science
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New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses
Thu 13 Mar 2025
WHO pandemic call, an H5N1 call to arms from global health leaders.
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An uncertain forecast for meteorology
Thu 6 Mar 2025
As US government cuts imperil weather data, meteorologists worldwide forecast trouble.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?
Thu 27 Feb 2025
How astronomers minimised our asteroid angst, despite a threat to our darkest skies
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Who runs science?
Thu 20 Feb 2025
A call from European flu experts to create a more sustainable research network.
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Hits from space
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4 to decide if it will miss us in 2032.
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Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers
Thu 6 Feb 2025
The mystery swarm of small earthquakes near the island of Santorini beg for more data
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Arctic carbon starting to flip
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Thirty per cent of the Arctic is switching from carbon sink to carbon source.
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AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids
Thu 16 Jan 2025
New types of snake-bite anti-venoms are designed by AI.
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First US avian flu fatality
Thu 9 Jan 2025
H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the US and claims its first human life
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Five years of Covid: Part two
Thu 2 Jan 2025
Five years on from the emergence of Sars CoV-2, what have we learned?
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Five years of Covid: Part one
Boxing Day 2024
Five years on from the emergence of Sars CoV-2, what have we learned?
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Sun Grazing
Thu 19 Dec 2024
The future of vaccinations, NASA鈥檚 Parker Solar Probe, and the dawn of complex life.
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Warming oceans kill millions of birds
Thu 12 Dec 2024
4 million sea birds died in Alaska as a result of a warming pacific.
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Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans
Thu 5 Dec 2024
How a single mutation in bovine H5N1 flu can make it prefer human cells.
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Fifty years of Charm
Thu 28 Nov 2024
Why November 1974 became known as the 鈥淣ovember Revolution鈥� in particle physics
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Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Every 2024 Atlantic hurricane was intensified by warming climate, with categories raised.
