Science In Action Podcast
The 大象传媒 brings you all the week's science news.
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Drought worsens in East Africa
Thu 2 Mar 2023
Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.
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Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
Thu 23 Feb 2023
Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.
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CRISPR & bioethics
Thu 16 Feb 2023
He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018
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Science on ice
Thu 2 Feb 2023
The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter鈥檚 icy moons
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Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink
Thu 26 Jan 2023
A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain
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One year on from the Tonga eruption
Thu 5 Jan 2023
We take a look at everything we鈥檝e learnt since the Tonga volcano erupted a year ago.
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The James Webb Space Telescope: The first six months
Thu 29 Dec 2022
What have scientists learned since Nasa launched its revolutionary telescope?
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A distant planet鈥檚 atmosphere
Thu 24 Nov 2022
The chemical composition of planet WASP-39b's atmosphere, 700 light years away
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Online harassment of Covid scientists
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats
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Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified
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What peat can tell us about our future
Thu 3 Nov 2022
Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.
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Seismic events on Mars
Thu 27 Oct 2022
New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars鈥� origin and evolution.
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The most powerful explosion ever recorded
Thu 20 Oct 2022
A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed
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Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders
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Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
Thu 6 Oct 2022
We meet the winners behind this week鈥檚 Nobel Prize announcements
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The final moments of DART
Thu 29 Sep 2022
Reflections on NASA鈥檚 latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth
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Should we mine the deep sea?
Thu 22 Sep 2022
A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.
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Science and the causes behind Pakistan鈥檚 floods
Thu 15 Sep 2022
A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.
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The genetics of human intelligence
Sun 11 Sep 2022
A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development
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The China heatwave and the new normal
Thu 1 Sep 2022
The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere
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Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
Thu 25 Aug 2022
The latest analysis of Nasa鈥檚 perseverance discoveries confounds scientists鈥� expectations
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Icelandic volcano erupts again
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption.
