Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
The heaviest thing in the Galaxy has now been imaged by the biggest telescope on Earth. This is...
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Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta faces an uncertain future. Also in the programme: using the rumble...
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The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
Deadly heat has been building over the Indian sub-continent for weeks and this week reached...
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Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
As a series of UN climate reports have warned recently, drastic reductions in greenhouse gas...
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How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
Brain scanning experiments reveal how psilocybin works to relieve severe depression. Psilocybin...
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Just over two months ago, the undersea volcano of Hunga Tonga erupted catastrophically,...
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Russian forces in the forested exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear site may be receiving...
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Unseasonably high temperatures have been recorded in both polar regions. Glaciologist Ruth...
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Analysis of wastewater from sewage systems has provided an early warning system for the presence...
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Why are Covid19 cases rising in Hong Kong?
Hong Kong had been very successful at preventing the spread of Coivd19. Testing and isolation...
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Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Market is associated with many of the first cases or Covid- 19, but data...
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Reforming the ‘China Initiative’
A scheme in the US designed to prevent industrial espionage and the theft of intellectual...
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Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology
Messenger RNA-based vaccines have been used successfully to kick start the antibody production...
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology has been at the centre of a controversy surrounding the origins...
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Identifying a more infectious HIV variant
We’re 40 years into the AIDS pandemic, and even with massive public health campaigns, still, 1 ½...
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There are now a number of biological indicators for the potential development of long covid....
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Tonga eruption – how it happened
The effects of the Tonga eruption could be felt around the world, many heard the boom of a sonic...
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Have we got it wrong on Omicron?
Studies using swabs from coronavirus patients seem to contradict earlier findings from cell...
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CORBEVAX – A vaccine for the world?
Now being produced in India CORBEVAX is grown in yeast in a similar way to several other widely...
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In our first programme of the year, we gathered a group of scientific experts directly involved...
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