Detecting earthquakes with fibre optics
50:35 | Feb 17th, 2019More Details keyboard_arrow_right
Los Angeles is famously earthquake prone, but it is also known for its technological advancement, being close to the heart of the computer industry. Seismologists have developed a new system which use...Show More
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Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
1:12:13 | Aug 16thMore Details keyboard_arrow_right
Russia’s President Putin announced the registration of a vaccine for coronavirus. This was reported with widespread alarm amid concerns over safety, but as BBC Russian Service’s Sergei Goryashko, tell...Show More
Counting the heat health threat from climate change
1:00:22 | Aug 9thMore Details keyboard_arrow_right
If the world does not curb its greenhouse gas emissions, by the end of this century, the number of people dying annually because of extreme heat will be greater than the current global death toll from...Show More
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NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
1:02:14 | Aug 2ndMore Details keyboard_arrow_right
NASA launches its new robotic mission to Mars. The rover, Perseverance, will land in a 50 kilometre wide crater which looks like it was filled by a lake about 4 billion years ago - the time when life...Show More
Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
1:01:45 | Jul 26thMore Details keyboard_arrow_right
There's been encouraging news about the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine this week from a trial involving about 1,000 people. But how great is the challenge in scaling up from making a few thousand doses of th...Show More
How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
53:30 | Jul 18thMore Details keyboard_arrow_right
Science in Action looks at some of the latest research on how response of our immune system to infection by the coronavirus. Researchers at Kings College London find that protective antibodies appea...Show More
Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
1:08:06 | Jul 11thMore Details keyboard_arrow_right
African scientists have developed a reliable, quick and cheap testing method which could be used by worldwide as the basis for mass testing programmes. The method, which produces highly accurate resu...Show More
Covid-19 and children
1:03:42 | Jul 5thMore Details keyboard_arrow_right
Studies in children who have been severely affected by Covid-19 in Italy, Britain and the US are showing the same thing – a range of symptoms linked to an overactive immune system. Elizabeth Whittaker...Show More
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