Science In Action

BBC World Service

The BBC brings you all the week's science news.

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335 episodes
Updated Oct 30, 2025

Episodes335

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Mar 25, 2021 · 41 min
Science on the side of a new volcano
Fagradalsfjall, hints of leptoquark, and the 2020 rise of the preprint
Mar 18, 2021 · 34 min
International science at sea
International research collaborations feel the pinch of UK cap on development spending
Mar 11, 2021 · 34 min
A shooting star parked on your driveway
A rare type of meteorite lands next to a rural UK house, and is now in professional hands
Mar 4, 2021 · 26 min
Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull
Neanderthal hearing, CO2 emissions in 2020, the Brazilian variant and scanning Little Foot
Feb 25, 2021 · 30 min
Waste not, want not
Novel recycling to make new products
Feb 18, 2021 · 32 min
Weird weather
Why is there snow in Texas?
Feb 11, 2021 · 33 min
Perseverance approaches Mars
How Perseverance will land on Mars
Feb 4, 2021 · 29 min
Mixing Covid vaccines
Can Covid vaccines be mixed?
Jan 28, 2021 · 33 min
New Covid vaccine
Next-generation of RNA vaccine
Jan 21, 2021 · 27 min
Saving the Northern White Rhino
Bringing back the Northern White Rhino from extinction
Jan 14, 2021 · 29 min
Gravitational waves and black holes
Gravitational waves from colliding supermassive black holes
Jan 7, 2021 · 27 min
New variants of SARS-Cov2
SARS-Cov2: UK and South African new variants
Dec 31, 2020 · 26 min
Coping with Covid
Making sense of a year of confusion
Dec 24, 2020 · 27 min
A year with Covid -19
Looking back on how the virus emerged and the scientific response
Dec 17, 2020 · 30 min
Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
Viral mutations happen all the time but we still need to be wary of their impact.
Dec 10, 2020 · 26 min
The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
Around three-quarters of the Brazilian city’s population are thought to have been infected
Dec 3, 2020 · 32 min
Freak weather getting even freakier
This year has seen record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, and now an Australian heatwave
Nov 26, 2020 · 31 min
Vaccines – the Covid confusion
The problems with incomplete or contradictory trial data published by press release.
Nov 19, 2020 · 35 min
Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
After infection or vaccination immunity to the virus may be long lasting
Nov 12, 2020 · 33 min
Covid-19 defeats US Marines
The virus spread amongst recruits despite a range of thorough precautions