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The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy in a scientific society have much of a future? Michael Mann, Naomi Oresk...
As two species of coral are killed off by the 2023 heatwave in the Florida reefs, the abilities of different plankton species to cope with r...
Ten years on from the Paris climate agreement, has it helped? Also, an international drought experiment, insights from 2D water, and social...
The 2025 Nobel prizes are announced this week – how did Science in Action’s predictions fare? Science author and thinker Philip Ball judges....
Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference coming from space. Also, as AI begins to design more and more DNA...
Epigenetic changes during early brain development, and the complexities of autism. Also, how bacteria learn to parry antibiotics, the subter...
Gravitational waves show two black holes merge just how Hawking predicted. Plus, a space mission without a target. And a Space probe without...
Scientists’ latest plans for welcoming interstellar visitor 3I/Atlas next month, and arranging a rendezvous with comet Apophis in 2029, as h...
Despite the relatively low magnitude, earthquakes in Afghanistan this week have left more than1000 dead. Afghan researcher Zakeria Shnizai f...
What can modern epidemiological methods tell us about French Revolutionary history? Also, the origins of horse riding, solar systems, and st...
A desktop nuclear fusion reactor that uses electrochemistry to up the ante. Also, a global survey of human wildfire exposures finds Africa b...
US Health Secretary RFK Jr’s call to retract a study on childhood vaccines is resisted by the journal. Also antibiotics get designed by AI,...
As the United States secretary of health and human services, Robert F Kennedy Jr., announces a $500 million cut to mRNA vaccine research in...
After most of the population of the Pacific rim sought higher ground this week, we speak with the architect of the tsunami warning technolog...
Have we found Betelgeuse’s ‘Betelbuddy?’ An astronomical mystery seems to be solved as the long-predicted stellar companion to the bright st...
Two black holes have collided and combined in the largest merger yet observed. Mark Hannam of Cardiff University and member of the study exp...
The European Space Agency plans to use satellite gravity data to track weakening ocean circulation systems. Rory Bingham of the University o...
There's a surge in cases and deaths from H5N1 bird flu in Cambodia - we hear what's the driver and how concerned we should be. Erik Karlsson...
A spectacular new 10-year telescopic survey of the universe gets underway in Chile. Also, a project to create human chromosomes completely s...
The universe is thought to consist of 70% Dark Energy, 25% Dark Matter, and just 5% Baryonic matter which is the atoms that make up you and...
ESA’s Solar Orbiter camera probe begins raising its orbit towards the sun’s poles, whilst Betelgeuse’s elusive buddy continues to sneak past...
What is Fusarium graminearum and why were scientists allegedly smuggling it into the US? Also, Alpine Glacier collapse and an HIV capitulati...
China is aiming to join the small club of nations who have successfully returned scientific samples of asteroids for analysis on earth, teac...
This week, 124 countries agreed at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on measures aimed at preventing a future pandemic. The agreement very...
In 2015, the World Health Organisation set the goal of eradicating rabies deaths from dog-bites to “Zero by 2030”. A team at the University...
This week, the White House posted an executive order which details the administration’s intent to stop ‘dangerous gain-of-function research’...
Scientists from around the world have gathered together at the annual European Geosciences Union general assembly, to discuss current projec...
Last week, the website covid.gov looked very different, containing information on coping with covid and US research. This week it leads you...
After 60 years of doubling computer complexity every two years, can Moore’s law still predict the future power of the devices we use? In 196...
Pain, particularly chronic pain, is hard to research. New therapeutics are hard to screen for. Patients are not all the same. Sergui Pascu a...
How Myanmar’s tragic earthquake left a 500km scar on the surface of the earth in just 90 seconds. Also, more hints of a link between shingle...
This week, after five years of research, two newly discovered antiviral molecules have been shown to combat coronaviruses. Johan Neyts of th...
There is continued upheaval in US scientific institutions under the new Trump administration. This week $400 million dollars-worth of grants...
Five years after the WHO pandemic announcement, an H5N1 call to arms from global health leaders. Also, the oldest western European face is f...
As the new administration in the US continues to make cuts to government agencies and scientific funding, NOAA – the National Oceanic and At...
Just two weeks ago the world learned of an asteroid that had an almost 3% chance of striking earth in less than a decade. Astronomers kept l...
The Lancet this week features a paper calling for a financially sustainable network of influenza labs and experts across Europe. Marion Koop...
This week the recently spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 had its odds of missing us “spectacularly” slashed by 1 percentage point. Still nothing to...
The mystery swarm of small earthquakes near the island of Santorini beg for more data collection. Also, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Nasa's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from an asteroid has been a great success. Asteroid Bennu's sample yields a watery pool of his...
Thirty per cent of the Arctic is switching from carbon sink to carbon source. But could future fertilizer be made deep underground using les...
New types of snake-bite anti-venoms are designed by AI. Also, how much meat did human ancestors eat? How the Baltic Nord Stream gas pipeline...
H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the USA and this week claimed its first human life in North America - an elderly patient in...
Sars CoV-2 has been with us for five years. In the second of a 2-part special, Science in Action asks how well was science prepared for it?...
Sars CoV-2 has been with us for five years. In the first of a two-part special, Science in Action asks how well was science prepared for it?...
New insights into how our skin learns to tolerate and co-exist with bacteria on its surface show great potential for the development of simp...
Heatwaves in the pacific ocean have had a devastating effect on seabird populations in the north eastern US. Julia Parrish and colleagues pu...
Scientists have found that just one mutation in the current H5N1 virus in cattle can switch its preference from avian to human receptors. Ji...
November 1974 became known as the “November Revolution” in particle physics. Two teams on either side of the US discovered the same particle...
It is hard not to have noticed the intensity of storms around the world this year, not least the Atlantic storms that battered the eastern U...