Science In Action Episodes Episode guide
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Mount Taal volcano
Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning
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Australia鈥檚 extreme fire season
2019 was Australia鈥檚 hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires
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Adapting California
Living with the threat of fires and earthquakes.
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Gaming climate change
Can a role-playing game improve climate negotiation outcomes?
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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption
How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami
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White Island volcano eruption
Why a small eruption on White Island was so dangerous
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CRISPR babies scandal 鈥� more details
Evidence for a series of scientific and ethical errors have emerged
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New malaria target
Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance
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Politics and Amazonia鈥檚 fires
Satellite data shows this year鈥檚 Amazon fires have been the worst since 2010.
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Australia burning
To what extent is 鈥楤ush fire weather鈥� influenced by climate change?
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Climate in crisis
Inaction on climate change while the impact of air pollution is likened to smoking
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Wildfires and winds in California
How dry land and high winds are fuelling fires in California
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Is quantum supremacy 鈥榞arbage鈥�?
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
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
Nobel Prize wins for a range of well-known discoveries
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Drought likely to follow India鈥檚 floods
Despite extreme rainfall, climate scientists predict drought in India within months.
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Global climate inaction
The latest climate report look like earlier ones, where is the call to action?
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South East Asia choking - again
Why even staying indoors offers no escape from fires across the region
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Embryoids from stem cells
Embryoids from stem cells; water vapour in atmosphere of rocky exoplanet;
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New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion
An isotopic fingerprint is reported of a nuclear explosion in Russia last month
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Nanotube computer says hello
A 16bit computer processor made of carbon nanotubes is unveiled to the world.
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Amazonian fires likely to worsen
Is it going to be a particularly bad burning season for Brazil鈥檚 rainforest?
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Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse
Scientists investigate the precise physical events around last year鈥檚 lethal eruption.
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Keeping tabs on nuclear weapons
Can science overcome the political impasse in nuclear proliferation policy?
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The snowball effect of Arctic fires
The long term consequences of the intense burning across the region
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The human danger 鈥� for sharks
A global appetite for shark meat and fins threatens these iconic predators
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The moon landing and another big space anniversary
The comet Shoemaker 鈥� Levy 9 spectacularly crashed into Jupiter 25 years ago.
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'Free' water and electricity for the world?
The solar panel which simultaneously produces electricity and purifies water
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Analysing the European heatwave
An analysis of weather and climate variables shows global warming had a role
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Is climate change driving Europe鈥檚 current heatwave?
Scientists are unpicking the influence of anthropogenic forces on this event as it happens
