Science In Action Podcast
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ brings you all the week's science news.
Episodes to download
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Brazil’s Covid chaos
Thu 28 May 2020
The number of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show
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Covid-19 vaccines
Thu 21 May 2020
More than a hundred vaccines are in development to fight the virus
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Loosening lockdown
Thu 14 May 2020
Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.
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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
Thu 7 May 2020
Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19
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Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery
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Covid 19 - the threat to refugees
Thu 9 Apr 2020
The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
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Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
Thu 2 Apr 2020
As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19?
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The science of social distancing
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Why staying home is the best defence against Covid -19
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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
Thu 19 Mar 2020
Research from Italy and China, shows many people have the coronavirus but no symptoms
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Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
Thu 12 Mar 2020
The pattern of transmission and prospects for drug treatments.
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Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
Thu 5 Mar 2020
Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate.
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Tracking coronavirus spread
Thu 27 Feb 2020
More new cases of Covid-19 are now outside China than inside - how can we map the virus?
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Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk
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CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
Thu 13 Feb 2020
A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading
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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
Thu 6 Feb 2020
Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?
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New Coronavirus
Thu 23 Jan 2020
What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China
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Mount Taal volcano
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning
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Australia’s extreme fire season
Thu 9 Jan 2020
2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires
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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
Thu 19 Dec 2019
How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami
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CRISPR babies scandal – more details
Thu 5 Dec 2019
Evidence for a series of scientific and ethical errors have emerged
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New malaria target
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance
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Politics and Amazonia’s fires
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Satellite data shows this year’s Amazon fires have been the worst since 2010.
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Australia burning
Thu 14 Nov 2019
To what extent is ‘Bush fire weather’ influenced by climate change?
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Climate in crisis
Thu 7 Nov 2019
Inaction on climate change while the impact of air pollution is likened to smoking