Science In Action Episodes Episode guide
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Gene-by-Gene Guide to a Nematode
What each gene does – the first functional analysis of an organism's genome
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Gene Therapy Research for Cystic Fibrosis
Delivering gene therapy for cystic fibrosis as a nasal spray
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Galileo's Pictures of Jupiter and its Moons
Are these the best ever pictures of Jupiter?
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Galileo probe reaches Jupiter after six years and reports home
Galileo continues to orbit while probe sends back data from the Jupiter's atmosphere
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Galapagos Fire threatens Darwin's Giant Tortoises
How do you rescue a quarter-tonne giant tortoise from a bush fire?
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Future of Higgs boson Particle Research in the Balance
CERN building schedule threatens Higgs Boson particle research
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Fungi that thrive on Radioactivity
Fungi that use pigment melanin to harvest energy and thrive in radioactive environments
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Fungal Pesticide targets Mosquitoes
A fungal pesticide targeting malaria-carrying mosquitoes is being tested
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Funding Cuts Result in unsafe UK Labs, claim Scientists
Save British Science group blames unsafe university labs on government funding cuts
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Functional Genomics – a new Science
New science of functional genomics is about discovering what genes are active when
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Found! The Tau Neutrino
Physicists at Fermilab in Chicago have discovered the missing fundamental particle
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Fossil Tree is complete from Leaves to Roots
Fossil of earliest tree discovered shows its structure from leaves to roots
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Fossil traces of the first Americans
Fossilised human faeces show humans living in north-west America 14,000 years ago
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Fossil Evidence of Cannibalism
Early hominids and our ancestors ate each other until relatively recently
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Fossil Detective work on the end of the Dinosaurs
Fossil detective work on the mass extinction that included the dinosaurs
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Forest Fires fuel Climate Change
Forest fires produce greenhouse gases linked to climate change
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Foot-and-mouth Disease is still Spreading
Foot-and-mouth disease is still spreading in Europe, despite the slaughter of farm animals
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Following Cancer Cells on the move
Using nanotechnology to detect cancer cells spreading through the body
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Foetal gene therapy trials on Monkeys
Foetal gene therapy demonstrated in macaque monkeys
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Flight or Fight?
How the brain's amygdala helps us recognise danger and respond
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Flesh-Eating Infections that never went away
Causes of recent outbreaks of deadly necrotising faciitis infections
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First Wheat Harvest in Space
First wheat grown in space is tasty news for astronauts of the future
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First success for the Stand Up and Walk project
Stand Up and Walk is a EU project to help paralysed people walk again
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First Magma Chamber discovered
Geologists in Hawaii have accidentally become the first to drill into magma chamber
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First List of Threatened Plant Species
Plants at risk list declares one in eight of the world's plants to be under threat
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First Flock of Cloned Sheep
Could humans be next after scientists produce first cloned sheep?
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First Chinese Astronaut
China's first manned space flight, Shenzhou 5, is a success
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Festival of Science returns to York
Scientists share their findings at the British Association's Festival of Science
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Feathered Dinosaur fossil in China
A feathered dinosaur, 130 million years old, discovered in China
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Farming with Waste Water
How to make safe the food grown with polluted waste water in the developing world?