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Oceans in Hot Water?

As Pacific Ocean temperatures rise, the a major El Niño looming. Experts from the European Centre...

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The Beginnings of Us

The origin of all complex life has been traced back 1.6 billion years as new molecular fossil...

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Vaccinating Condors Against Bird Flu

The California Condor has been brought back from the brink of extinction by dedicated...

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Brightest Supernova in a Decade

A star in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy has exploded spectacularly into a supernova, dubbed SN...

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Return of the Wildfires

Over the past few weeks, wildfires have scorched over 1,800 square miles of land across North...

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Human Genome Goes Global

In 2003, an incredible scientific milestone was achieved as the first human genome completed...

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Darwin Dumped from Indian Classrooms

India is at the centre of much of the discussion on this week’s episode of Science In Action....

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The truth about the Sudan biolab

Khartoum’s National Public Health Laboratory has been caught up in the ongoing conflict in Sudan....

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Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

The pandemic showed Africa at the back of the global queue when it came to vaccines. That should...

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Bird flu – the global threat

H5N1 highly pathogenic avian flu is racing across the world, and has infected multiple species,...

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Chasing tornados in the American mid-West

Chasing tornados in the American mid-West – scientists are trying to learn the maximum from the...

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Gene editing breakthrough

We look at a gene editing breakthrough, a new technique to correct genetic errors in sick...

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Animals at the Wuhan Market

DNA has revealed potential animal COVID carriers at the Wuhan market, but what does that tell us...

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Return of Cyclone Freddy

34 days after it first formed at the far end of the Indian Ocean, record-breaking Cyclone Freddy...

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Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril

Human Genome Editing: The team meet experts at the Human Genome Editing Summit in London,...

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Drought worsens in East Africa

The long rains of East Africa are forecast to fail again, for the third year running,...

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Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar

Cyclone Freddy has made landfall on Madagascar, leaving destruction in its wake. At the time this...

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CRISPR & bioethics

In the decade since the genome editing capabilities of CRISPR-Cas9 emerged, research into novel...

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Turkey-Syria earthquake

In the early hours of Monday, a powerful earthquake hit Kahramanmaras in Turkey. Nine hours later...

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Science on Ice

Pull on an extra layer and stay toasty whilst Science in Action braces for a deep freeze. Whilst...

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