Science In Action Episodes Episode guide
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Counting the heat health threat from climate change
Huge death toll from rising temperatures projected for century’s end.
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NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars
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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.
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How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.
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Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method
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Covid -19 and Children
Why a minority become gravely ill is still a mystery
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Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit
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Covid -19 hope for severe cases
A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful
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Food security, locusts and Covid -19
Efforts to eradicate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic
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The medical complexity of Covid -19
Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart
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Brazil’s Covid chaos
The number of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show
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Covid-19 vaccines
More than a hundred vaccines are in development to fight the virus
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Loosening lockdown
Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.
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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19
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Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery
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Presidents and pandemics
Why they don’t mix
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Italy, getting Covid-19 under control
Tentative steps to relax the lockdown
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Covid 19 - the threat to refugees
The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
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Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19?
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The science of social distancing
Why staying home is the best defence against Covid -19
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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
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?
The pattern of transmission and prospects for drug treatments.
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Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate.
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Tracking coronavirus spread
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
Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk
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CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading
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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?
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Understanding the new coronavirus
Analysis of the impact of the new virus
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New Coronavirus
What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China
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Mount Taal volcano
Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning