Unexpected Elements

African scientists have developed a reliable, quick and cheap testing method which could be used by worldwide as the bas... Read more

In Italy the entire population of a small town was tested for Covid 19. Of those infected, one in three people with no s... Read more

Research from New York examining the blood of people who have recovered from Covid – 19 shows the majority have produced... Read more

Has the loss from Greenland’s vast ice sheet reached a tipping point? According to glaciologist Michalea King, the rate ... Read more

All the farmed mink in Denmark are to be killed. Around 17 million. This is because they have SARS COV-2 coronavirus cir... Read more

Roland Pease is joined by California based science Journalist Molly Bentley as we examine the impact of earthquakes and ... Read more

Nobel prizes this week went to a range of discoveries that you might be familiar with, in fact you might be using one of... Read more

The way in which a new virus has emerged in China is reminiscent of SARS, a highly infectious virus that spread rapidly.... Read more

A multi arm trial testing a range of drugs has shown that readily available steroids can be lifesaving for people severe... Read more

A quantum computer has performed a calculation considered impossible for conventional computers, but how meaningful is t... Read more

Pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are largely unachievable says a major audit of commitments to the Paris Clima... Read more

Science in Action talks to Nasa researcher Hannah Kaplan who is part of the team for the space agency’s sampling mission... Read more

While developing new treatments drug companies usually release little useful information on how the clinical trials are ... Read more

This week’s IPCC report on the state of the world’s climate looks very much like their earlier reports on the subject. T... Read more

From the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Roland Pease talks with Diana Roman of the Carnegie Institution fo... Read more

This year’s Amazon fires have been worse than since 2010, scientists blame a government attitude which they say has enco... Read more

Data from clinical investigations has suggested that a specific mutation in the SARS-Cov -2 virus has made it more trans... Read more

An experimental satellite called Aeolus, named after a Greek god of wind, which takes daily global measurements of the w... Read more

Attributing Australia's bush fires, a major study says man-made climate change was a big driver – making the fires at le... Read more

Scientists know very little about the first few days of the life of a human embryo, once it's been implanted in the womb... Read more