Science In Action
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Science In Action
The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
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Old faces and big spaces in small places
The 2025 Nobel prizes are announced this week – how did Science in Action’s predictions fare? Science author and thinker Philip Ball judges.
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A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference coming from space. Also, as AI begins to design more and more DNA sequences...
Autism and the epigenetics of early brain development
Epigenetic changes during early brain development, and the complexities of autism. Also, how bacteria learn to parry antibiotics, the subterranean bur...
Stephen Hawking gets it right again
Gravitational waves show two black holes merge just how Hawking predicted. Plus, a space mission without a target. And a Space probe without a confirm...
Asteroids, comets and where to find them
Scientists’ latest plans for welcoming interstellar visitor 3I/Atlas next month, and arranging a rendezvous with comet Apophis in 2029, as heard this...
Why is Afghanistan so vulnerable to earthquakes?
Despite the relatively low magnitude, earthquakes in Afghanistan this week have left more than1000 dead. Afghan researcher Zakeria Shnizai from the Un...
How Fear Spreads
What can modern epidemiological methods tell us about French Revolutionary history? Also, the origins of horse riding, solar systems, and star dust it...
Not cold fusion all over again
A desktop nuclear fusion reactor that uses electrochemistry to up the ante. Also, a global survey of human wildfire exposures finds Africa burning ahe...
Vaccine study retraction request rejected
US Health Secretary RFK Jr’s call to retract a study on childhood vaccines is resisted by the journal. Also antibiotics get designed by AI, and a new...
An end to allergic reactions?
As the United States secretary of health and human services, Robert F Kennedy Jr., announces a $500 million cut to mRNA vaccine research in the United...
Getting ahead of tsunamis
After most of the population of the Pacific rim sought higher ground this week, we speak with the architect of the tsunami warning technology. Also ho...
Discovering Betelgeuse’s Betelbuddy
Have we found Betelgeuse’s ‘Betelbuddy?’ An astronomical mystery seems to be solved as the long-predicted stellar companion to the bright star Betelge...
Biggest black hole merger observed
Two black holes have collided and combined in the largest merger yet observed. Mark Hannam of Cardiff University and member of the study explains how...
Tracking ocean circulation systems
The European Space Agency plans to use satellite gravity data to track weakening ocean circulation systems. Rory Bingham of the University of Bristol...
Bird flu surges in Cambodia
There's a surge in cases and deaths from H5N1 bird flu in Cambodia - we hear what's the driver and how concerned we should be. Erik Karlsson, Head of...
Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
A spectacular new 10-year telescopic survey of the universe gets underway in Chile. Also, a project to create human chromosomes completely synthetical...
Half a universe once lost now found
The universe is thought to consist of 70% Dark Energy, 25% Dark Matter, and just 5% Baryonic matter which is the atoms that make up you and me. At lea...
The first solar polar pictures
ESA’s Solar Orbiter camera probe begins raising its orbit towards the sun’s poles, whilst Betelgeuse’s elusive buddy continues to sneak past our best...
Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?
What is Fusarium graminearum and why were scientists allegedly smuggling it into the US? Also, Alpine Glacier collapse and an HIV capitulation.
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Thirteen months to a chip off the moon
China is aiming to join the small club of nations who have successfully returned scientific samples of asteroids for analysis on earth, teaching us mo...
WHO Pandemic Agreement reached
This week, 124 countries agreed at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on measures aimed at preventing a future pandemic. The agreement very strongly...
Vaccinating rabies’ reservoir dogs
In 2015, the World Health Organisation set the goal of eradicating rabies deaths from dog-bites to “Zero by 2030”. A team at the University of Glasgow...
Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding
This week, the White House posted an executive order which details the administration’s intent to stop ‘dangerous gain-of-function research’. We talk...
Scientists of the world unite
Scientists from around the world have gathered together at the annual European Geosciences Union general assembly, to discuss current projects, worki...
Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
Last week, the website covid.gov looked very different, containing information on coping with covid and US research. This week it leads you to a White...
Any more for Moore’s Law?
After 60 years of doubling computer complexity every two years, can Moore’s law still predict the future power of the devices we use?
In 1965, e...
Researching pain, painlessly
Pain, particularly chronic pain, is hard to research. New therapeutics are hard to screen for. Patients are not all the same. Sergui Pascu and colleag...
Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth
How Myanmar’s tragic earthquake left a 500km scar on the surface of the earth in just 90 seconds. Also, more hints of a link between shingles vaccines...
Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations
This week, after five years of research, two newly discovered antiviral molecules have been shown to combat coronaviruses. Johan Neyts of the Rega Ins...
Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"
There is continued upheaval in US scientific institutions under the new Trump administration. This week $400 million dollars-worth of grants have been...
New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses
Five years after the WHO pandemic announcement, an H5N1 call to arms from global health leaders. Also, the oldest western European face is found, the...
An uncertain forecast for meteorology
As the new administration in the US continues to make cuts to government agencies and scientific funding, NOAA – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?
Just two weeks ago the world learned of an asteroid that had an almost 3% chance of striking earth in less than a decade. Astronomers kept looking, an...
Who runs science?
The Lancet this week features a paper calling for a financially sustainable network of influenza labs and experts across Europe. Marion Koopmans was o...
Hits from space
This week the recently spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 had its odds of missing us “spectacularly” slashed by 1 percentage point. Still nothing to worry abou...
Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers
The mystery swarm of small earthquakes near the island of Santorini beg for more data collection. Also, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr...
Make science great again
Nasa's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from an asteroid has been a great success. Asteroid Bennu's sample yields a watery pool of history, than...
Arctic carbon starting to flip
Thirty per cent of the Arctic is switching from carbon sink to carbon source. But could future fertilizer be made deep underground using less resource...
AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids
New types of snake-bite anti-venoms are designed by AI. Also, how much meat did human ancestors eat? How the Baltic Nord Stream gas pipeline rupture o...
First US avian flu fatality
H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the USA and this week claimed its first human life in North America - an elderly patient in Louisiana...