Science In Action Episodes Episode guide
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Loosening lockdown
Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.
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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
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
Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery
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Presidents and pandemics
Why they don鈥檛 mix
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Italy, getting Covid-19 under control
Tentative steps to relax the lockdown
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Covid 19 - the threat to refugees
The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
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Covid 19 鈥� The fightback in Africa begins
As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19?
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The science of social distancing
Why staying home is the best defence against Covid -19
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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
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?
The pattern of transmission and prospects for drug treatments.
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Australia鈥檚 fires - fuelled by climate change
Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind鈥檚 influence on the climate.
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Tracking coronavirus spread
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
Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk
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CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading
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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?
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Understanding the new coronavirus
Analysis of the impact of the new virus
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New Coronavirus
What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China
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Mount Taal volcano
Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning
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Australia鈥檚 extreme fire season
2019 was Australia鈥檚 hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires
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Adapting California
Living with the threat of fires and earthquakes.
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Gaming climate change
Can a role-playing game improve climate negotiation outcomes?
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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami
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White Island volcano eruption
Why a small eruption on White Island was so dangerous
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CRISPR babies scandal 鈥� more details
Evidence for a series of scientific and ethical errors have emerged
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New malaria target
Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance
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Politics and Amazonia鈥檚 fires
Satellite data shows this year鈥檚 Amazon fires have been the worst since 2010.
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Australia burning
To what extent is 鈥楤ush fire weather鈥� influenced by climate change?
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Climate in crisis
Inaction on climate change while the impact of air pollution is likened to smoking
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Wildfires and winds in California
How dry land and high winds are fuelling fires in California
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Is quantum supremacy 鈥榞arbage鈥�?
Has a new era of computing finally arrived or not, or is it both at the same time?
