Science In Action Episodes Episode guide
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Pacific Currents that drive El Niño events
Ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean where El Niño events start
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Ozone Levels and Climate Change
Climate change models need to take into account ozone and other greenhouse gases
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Oxygen from the Primeval Slime
Cyanobacteria were at work 2.5 billion years ago, making oxygen
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Oxygen Detected on Jupiter's Frozen Moon
Thin oxygen atomosphere detected on Jupiter's moon Europa by the Hubble space telescope
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Overfishing could soon cause Extinctions
Only 10% of world's large fish stocks remain, warns new report
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Outbreak of Parasitic Liver Disease in China
Devising new strategies to diagnose and predict alveolar echinococcosis (AE)
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Our oldest Ancestor was a three-year-old Girl
The oldest human ancestor is a three-year-old girl who lived three million years ago
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Our first Meat-eating Ancestor?
A 2.5-million-year-old addition to the human family tree has been found in Ethiopia
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Origin of HIV infection discovered in Cameroon
Chimpanzees in Cameroon identified as the source of the original HIV infection in humans
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Organic Molecules found in a Meteorite
Organic molecules have been found in the Murchison meteorite
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Opening our Eyes to Genetic Engineering
How do genetic engineering discoveries benifit us?
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One Gene for strong Bones
The key to osteoporosis could be in a single gene
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Once there was Water on Mars
NASA announces "possible evidence for water that has flowed on Mars"
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Oldest Tools made by Man's Ancestors
Preshistoric technology used to make 2.5 million-year-old stone tools found in Ethiopia
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Oldest Europeans' bone Tools at Boxgrove
Europe's earliest bone tools show more modern behaviour in early man than earlier believed
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Oil Spill threatens Spanish Coast
Impact of the massive oil spill off Spain's northern coast
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Of Mice and Men – Cloning Mice and Human Organs
Worldwide advances in cloning will speed up research and development of human treatments
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Nuclear Fusion in a Beaker?
Controversial claims of desk-top nuclear fusion
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North Bering Sea in Danger
Global warming may cause the North Bering Sea to lose its Arctic classification
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Nobel Prizes for Sciences announced
Annoucement of Nobel Prizes for outstanding achievement in medicine, physics and chemistry
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Nobel Prizes for identifying HIV, explaining Broken Symmetry, and a green protein
This year's Nobel Prize winners and their work
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No change at UN Climate Change talks
Disappointment over failure of Europe and the USA to agree at UN climate change conference
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New understanding of early Cancer Growth
Two reports published on breakthroughs in the understanding of early cancer growth
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New UK rules about Human-Animal Embryos
British scientists are close to producing human-animal embryos after a new ruling
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New theory of the Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs
Did one meteor impact cause the rise of large dinosaurs another cause their extinction?
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New Source of Embryonic Mouse Stem Cells
Cells from mouse testicles can be "reprogrammed" as embryonic stem cells, say Germans
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New Results for Aids Patient Zero
Controversy over new pathology results for Aids Patient Zero
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New research into treating Deafness
Treating human deafness with gene therapy could be a step closer after mice experiments
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New research into the Genetics of HIV
Taking advantage of HIV virus's mistakes to research a new treatment
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New Research into Cot Death
New research into the causes of sudden infant death syndrome focuses on the gasp reflex