Science In Action Podcast
The 成人快手 brings you all the week's science news.
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How Fear Spreads
Thursday
What can statistical physics say about the 鈥淕reat Fear鈥� epidemic of revolutionary France?
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Not cold fusion all over again
Thu 21 Aug 2025
A desktop nuclear fusion reactor that uses electrochemistry to up the ante
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Vaccine study retraction request rejected
Thu 14 Aug 2025
US Health Secretary RFK Jr鈥檚 call to retract a study on childhood vaccines is resisted.
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An end to allergic reactions?
Thu 7 Aug 2025
Scientists may have discovered the key to preventing anaphylaxis.
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Getting ahead of tsunamis
Thu 31 Jul 2025
The scientist behind the pacific tsunami warning and the decades of work before it.
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Discovering Betelgeuse鈥檚 Betelbuddy
Thu 24 Jul 2025
An astronomical mystery is solved as Betelgeuse鈥檚 stellar companion is spotted
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Biggest black hole merger observed
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Two black holes have collided and combined in the largest merger yet observed.
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Tracking ocean circulation systems
Thu 10 Jul 2025
ESA plans to use satellite gravity data to track weakening ocean circulation systems
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Bird flu surges in Cambodia
Thu 3 Jul 2025
There's a surge in human cases and deaths from H5N1 bird flu in Cambodia.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
Thu 26 Jun 2025
A spectacular new 10-year telescopic survey of the universe gets underway in Chile
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Half a universe once lost now found
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Half of the normal matter in the universe has never actually been spotted - until now
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The first solar polar pictures
Thu 12 Jun 2025
ESA鈥檚 Solar Orbiter camera probe begins raising its orbit towards the sun鈥檚 poles
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Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?
Thu 5 Jun 2025
What is Fusarium graminearum and why were scientists allegedly smuggling it into the US?
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Thirteen months to a chip off the moon
Thu 29 May 2025
China鈥檚 audacious Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is underway
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WHO Pandemic Agreement reached
Thu 22 May 2025
124 countries have agreed on a global effort to fight future pandemic health threats.
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Vaccinating rabies鈥� reservoir dogs
Thu 15 May 2025
Can the WHO鈥檚 Zero by 2030 be achieved for dog-mediated rabies?
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Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding
Thu 8 May 2025
Trump signs executive order restricting funding to 鈥榙angerous鈥� biological research
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Scientists of the world unite
Thu 1 May 2025
Earth science in every direction from the European Geosciences Union鈥檚 2025 assembly
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Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Scientists find yet more data from early Covid to suggest zoonotic cross-over as origin.
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Any more for Moore鈥檚 Law?
Thu 17 Apr 2025
It's 60 years since Gordon Moore predicted computing power would double every two years
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Researching pain, painlessly
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Researchers grow a mini human pain pathway in a flask for testing pain painlessly
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Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth
Thu 3 Apr 2025
How Myanmar鈥檚 tragic earthquake left a 500km scar on earth's surface in just 90 seconds.
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Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations
Thu 27 Mar 2025
As the US halts all Covid related research, what is the impact on pandemic preparedness?
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Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Individual stories of those affected by the Trump administration's upheaval of science
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New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses
Thu 13 Mar 2025
WHO pandemic call, an H5N1 call to arms from global health leaders.
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An uncertain forecast for meteorology
Thu 6 Mar 2025
As US government cuts imperil weather data, meteorologists worldwide forecast trouble.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?
Thu 27 Feb 2025
How astronomers minimised our asteroid angst, despite a threat to our darkest skies
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Who runs science?
Thu 20 Feb 2025
A call from European flu experts to create a more sustainable research network.
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Hits from space
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4 to decide if it will miss us in 2032.
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Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers
Thu 6 Feb 2025
The mystery swarm of small earthquakes near the island of Santorini beg for more data
