Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements
- 30 mins
- 06 Oct 2022
BBC Sounds - Science In Action - Available Episodes
Science In Action
The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
Episodes (1392 Available)
The final moments of DARTReflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth
- 26 mins
- 29 Sep 2022
Should we mine the deep sea?A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.
- 26 mins
- 22 Sep 2022
Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floodsA new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.
- 29 mins
- 15 Sep 2022
The genetics of human intelligenceA single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development
- 26 mins
- 11 Sep 2022
The China heatwave and the new normalThe record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere
- 28 mins
- 01 Sep 2022
Surprises from a Martian Lake BedThe latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations
- 26 mins
- 25 Aug 2022
Deadly droughtThe gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought
- 28 mins
- 18 Aug 2022
Icelandic volcano erupts againScience in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption.
- 28 mins
- 11 Aug 2022
Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and heartsResearchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells
- 29 mins
- 04 Aug 2022
The first galaxies at the universe's dawnJames Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time
- 27 mins
- 28 Jul 2022
Heat waves in the Northern HemisphereHeat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?
- 29 mins
- 21 Jul 2022
First images from the James Webb Space TelescopeA sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope.
- 31 mins
- 14 Jul 2022
Long Covid ‘brain fog’New insights into the cause of Long Covid ‘brain fog’
- 30 mins
- 07 Jul 2022
Extreme heat death risk in Latin AmericaNew study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities
- 32 mins
- 30 Jun 2022
Monster microbeGigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.
- 34 mins
- 23 Jun 2022
Thirty years after the Earth SummitThirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?
- 29 mins
- 16 Jun 2022
Body scan reveals HIV's hideoutsA medical scan which reveals where HIV and other viruses hide in the body.
- 29 mins
- 09 Jun 2022
Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.
- 29 mins
- 02 Jun 2022
Heat death by volcano and other storiesNew insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed
- 29 mins
- 26 May 2022
