Science In Action Podcast
The 大象传媒 brings you all the week's science news.
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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 鈥� 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鈥檚 fires - fuelled by climate change
Thu 5 Mar 2020
Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind鈥檚 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鈥檚 extreme fire season
Thu 9 Jan 2020
2019 was Australia鈥檚 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 鈥� 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鈥檚 fires
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Satellite data shows this year鈥檚 Amazon fires have been the worst since 2010.
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Australia burning
Thu 14 Nov 2019
To what extent is 鈥楤ush fire weather鈥� 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
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Wildfires and winds in California
Thu 31 Oct 2019
How dry land and high winds are fuelling fires in California
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Is quantum supremacy 鈥榞arbage鈥�?
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Has a new era of computing finally arrived or not, or is it both at the same time?
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Malaria's origins and a potential new treatment
Thu 17 Oct 2019
How malaria jumped from great apes to humans and why Antarctica may hold a new treatment
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From batteries to distant worlds
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Nobel Prize wins for a range of well-known discoveries
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Drought likely to follow India鈥檚 floods
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Despite extreme rainfall, climate scientists predict drought in India within months.
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Global climate inaction
Thu 26 Sep 2019
The latest climate report look like earlier ones, where is the call to action?
