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Science on the side of a new volcano

Sightseers and social media scrollers have flocked to the slopes of Fagradalsfjall, a volcano...

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Science on the side of a new volcano

Sightseers and social media scrollers have flocked to the slopes of Fagradalsfjall, a volcano...

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International science at sea

In the UK thousands of scientists have signed open letters to the UK government protesting cuts...

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International science at sea

In the UK thousands of scientists have signed open letters to the UK government protesting cuts...

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A shooting star parked on your driveway

Last week a fireball lit up the sky of western England. Locals and professionals scoured the...

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Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull

One of our most complete ancient ancestor’s fossils has been transported to the UK from South...

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Waste not, want not

Although vaccines will go a long way to reducing the number of cases of Covid, there’s still a...

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Weird weather

A paper in the BMJ shows that deaths from Covid 9 are being massively overlooked in Zambia. The...

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Perseverance approaches Mars

On 18th February the Perseverance rover should land on Mars. Katie Stack-Morgan of NASA’s Jet...

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Mixing Covid vaccines

A new trial is about to start in the UK, seeing if different vaccines can be mixed and matched in...

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New Covid vaccine

Researchers at Imperial College have been working on a strategy that can make RNA vaccines...

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Covid transmission and masks

President Biden’s first executive order was what’s being called the hundred-day mask mandate. The...

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Gravitational waves and black holes

After collecting data for more than twelve years the North American Nanohertz Observatory for...

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New variants of SARS-Cov2

Mutant strains of SARS-Cov2 have been identified not only in the UK, where it was first...

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Coping with Covid

This has been an incredible year for scientific advance and collaboration, epitomised by the roll...

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A year with Covid -19

It was the end of December 2019 when reports of a new flu like infection first came out of China....

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Covid -19 – Mutations are normal

This week the UK Health secretary raised concerns over a new variant of SARS- CoV-2 currently...

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The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus

Pictures of coffins and mass graves seen by satellites showed that Manaus has been badly affected...

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Freak weather getting even freakier

This year’s Atlantic hurricane season has seen a new record for severe storms says Climatologist...

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Vaccines – the Covid confusion

While developing new treatments drug companies usually release little useful information on how...

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