The latest IPCC assessment raised alarm about the rate at which manmade emissions are...
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July 2021 saw temperatures in the western US and Canada smash previous records by 5 degrees. And...
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The earliest traces of animal life on earth.
Do rocks found in Canada show animal life 350 million years older than any found before? And,...
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Your molecular machinery, now in 3D
Back in November it was announced that an AI company called DeepMind had essentially cracked the...
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Science when the funding dries up
This week the UK parliament voted to accept the Government’s continued cap on Official...
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Human induced climate change heats up fast
Scientists say the record-breaking Pacific North-West heatwave of recent weeks must have been...
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The Natural History Museum in London holds a massive collection of insects. It asked researchers...
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This week Jesse Bloom of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research has published an account of...
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Doubling Earth’s Energy Imbalance
On Science in Action this week Nasa scientists have observed that the Earth’s Energy Imbalance...
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Evolving viral variant trickery
Dr. Clare Jolly and colleagues have been looking at how the first of the major covid variants –...
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Zoonotic hotspots and where to find them
Researchers map where the riskiest areas are for viruses to jump from bats into humans. Also,...
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The latest Nyiragongo eruption was not entirely unexpected, the volcano’s lava lake inside the...
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A brain-computer interface allows a severely paralysed patient not only to move and use a robotic...
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We wouldn’t drink dirty water so why do we put up with polluted air? Researchers are calling for...
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Analysis of the 78,0000-year-old fossil of a Kenyan boy reveals he was likely buried with care...
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Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan
When Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins – who passed away this week – looked down on the earth...
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Exponential growth in the Indian Covid cases
As Covid cases surge almost beyond belief in India, how much is to do with social distancing, and...
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Rolling out the vaccines faster
Two weeks ago several G7 leaders called for an international treaty on Pandemic Preparedness for...
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On the trail of rare blood clots
On Wednesday the EU’s EMA and UK’s JCVI announced a suspected correlation between vaccination and...
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Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital
After last year’s first wave of covid-19 in the UK, individuals who had been discharged after...
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