Science In Action Podcast
The 蜜芽传媒 brings you all the week's science news.
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How science got here, and where next
Thursday
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
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Coral extinctions and chalky unknowns
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Two species of coral declared functionally extinct in Florida reefs - can plankton cope?
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Paris agreement impacts and drought realities
Thu 16 Oct 2025
Ten years on from the Paris climate agreement, has it helped at all?
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Old faces and big spaces in small places
Thu 9 Oct 2025
The 2025 Nobel prizes are announced 鈥� how did Science in Action鈥檚 predictions fare?
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A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
Thu 2 Oct 2025
Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference from space.
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Autism and the epigenetics of early brain development
Thu 25 Sep 2025
Epigenetic changes during early brain development and the complexities of autism.
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Stephen Hawking gets it right again
Thu 18 Sep 2025
LIGO witnesses two black holes merge just how Hawking predicted.
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Asteroids, comets and where to find them
Thu 11 Sep 2025
A special episode from an international planetary science meeting in Helsinki
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Why is Afghanistan so vulnerable to earthquakes?
Thu 4 Sep 2025
Earthquakes in Afghanistan this week have left more than 1000 dead. Why?
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How Fear Spreads
Thu 28 Aug 2025
What can statistical physics say about the 鈥淕reat Fear鈥� epidemic of revolutionary France?
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Not cold fusion all over again
Thu 21 Aug 2025
A desktop nuclear fusion reactor that uses electrochemistry to up the ante
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Vaccine study retraction request rejected
Thu 14 Aug 2025
US Health Secretary RFK Jr鈥檚 call to retract a study on childhood vaccines is resisted.
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An end to allergic reactions?
Thu 7 Aug 2025
Scientists may have discovered the key to preventing anaphylaxis.
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Getting ahead of tsunamis
Thu 31 Jul 2025
The scientist behind the pacific tsunami warning and the decades of work before it.
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Discovering Betelgeuse鈥檚 Betelbuddy
Thu 24 Jul 2025
An astronomical mystery is solved as Betelgeuse鈥檚 stellar companion is spotted
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Biggest black hole merger observed
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Two black holes have collided and combined in the largest merger yet observed.
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Tracking ocean circulation systems
Thu 10 Jul 2025
ESA plans to use satellite gravity data to track weakening ocean circulation systems
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Bird flu surges in Cambodia
Thu 3 Jul 2025
There's a surge in human cases and deaths from H5N1 bird flu in Cambodia.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
Thu 26 Jun 2025
A spectacular new 10-year telescopic survey of the universe gets underway in Chile
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Half a universe once lost now found
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Half of the normal matter in the universe has never actually been spotted - until now
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The first solar polar pictures
Thu 12 Jun 2025
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
