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Science In Action Episodes

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    Nyiragongo eruption

    Understanding the world’s "most dangerous volcano"

  2. Robot revolution

    The robot arm that comes with feelings

  3. Covid and clean air

    How improving indoor air quality can prevent illness from many viruses

  4. Africa’s oldest burial

    A fossilised child reveals an ancient caring society

  5. Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan

    Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan.

  6. Exponential increase in Indian covid cases

    What’s behind the soaring numbers?

  7. Rolling out the vaccines faster

    Can more money speed up rollout?

  8. On the trail of rare blood clots

    Scientists in the EU and the UK are looking out for rare blood clots in vaccinated people.

  9. Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital

    A third of people hospitalised for covid are readmitted sometime after discharge.

  10. Science on the side of a new volcano

    Fagradalsfjall, hints of leptoquark, and the 2020 rise of the preprint

  11. International science at sea

    International research collaborations feel the pinch of UK cap on development spending

  12. A shooting star parked on your driveway

    A rare type of meteorite lands next to a rural UK house, and is now in professional hands

  13. Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull

    Neanderthal hearing, CO2 emissions in 2020, the Brazilian variant and scanning Little Foot

  14. Waste not, want not

    Novel recycling to make new products

  15. Weird weather

    Why is there snow in Texas?

  16. Perseverance approaches Mars

    How Perseverance will land on Mars

  17. Mixing Covid vaccines

    Can Covid vaccines be mixed?

  18. New Covid vaccine

    Next-generation of RNA vaccine

  19. Saving the Northern White Rhino

    Bringing back the Northern White Rhino from extinction

  20. Gravitational waves and black holes

    Gravitational waves from colliding supermassive black holes

  21. New variants of SARS-Cov2

    SARS-Cov2: UK and South African new variants

  22. Coping with Covid

    Making sense of a year of confusion

  23. A year with Covid -19

    Looking back on how the virus emerged and the scientific response

  24. Covid -19 – Mutations are normal

    Viral mutations happen all the time but we still need to be wary of their impact.

  25. The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus

    Around three-quarters of the Brazilian city’s population are thought to have been infected

  26. Freak weather getting even freakier

    This year has seen record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, and now an Australian heatwave

  27. Vaccines – the Covid confusion

    The problems with incomplete or contradictory trial data published by press release.

  28. Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity

    After infection or vaccination immunity to the virus may be long lasting

  29. Covid-19 defeats US Marines

    The virus spread amongst recruits despite a range of thorough precautions

  30. Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans

    What does transmission of coronavirus from mink to humans mean for the future vaccine?

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