Podcast BBC - Science Hour

Jet fuel from thin air

Scientists in Switzerland have developed a system which uses solar energy to extract gases such...

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Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?

Just a few days before COP26 opens in Glasgow, the World Meteorological Organisation reported...

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Red blood cells’ surprising immune function

We’ve talked a huge amount the past 18 months, for obvious reasons, about the way that white...

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Wetlands under attack

Since its introduction four decades ago, Spartina alterniflora, a salt-water cordgrass from the...

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Youngest rock samples from the moon

n December 2020, China's Chang'e-5 mission returned to earth carrying rock samples collected from...

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Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa

Since their discovery in the 1970s, artemisinin-based drugs have become the mainstay of treatment...

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New evidence for SARS-CoV-2’s origin in bats

Researchers studying bats in Northern Laos have found evidence that brings us closer than ever to...

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Ebola can remain dormant for five years

An international team of researchers has discovered that an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea in...

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Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal

For the world to have a decent chance of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, 90 per...

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Hurricane season intensifies

When hurricane Ida struck the coast of Louisiana last weekend, almost to the day that Katrina did...

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World’s first DNA Covid-Vaccine

Indian authorities have approved the world’s first DNA-based Covid vaccine for emergency use. Not...

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Seismic citizen science in Hispaniola

The epicentre of the tragic earthquake in Haiti last week was just 100km from that of the even...

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Methane - a climate solution?

The latest IPCC assessment raised alarm about the rate at which manmade emissions are...

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Record-shattering weather

July 2021 saw temperatures in the western US and Canada smash previous records by 5 degrees. And...

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The earliest traces of animal life on earth

Do rocks found in Canada show animal life 350 million years older than any found before? And,...

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Your molecular machinery, now in 3D

Back in November it was announced that an AI company called DeepMind had near enough cracked the...

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Science when the funding dries up

This week the UK parliament voted to accept the Government’s continued cap on Official...

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Human induced climate change heats up fast

Scientists say the record-breaking Pacific North-West heatwave of recent weeks must have been...

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Insects in incredible detail

The Natural History Museum in London holds a massive collection of insects. It asked researchers...

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Tales of unexpected DNA data

This week Jesse Bloom of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research has published an account of...

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