Although vaccines will go a long way to reducing the number of cases of Covid, there’s still a need for other...
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A paper in the BMJ shows that deaths from Covid 9 are being massively overlooked in Zambia. The new data come from...
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On 18th February the Perseverance rover should land on Mars. Katie Stack-Morgan of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab...
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A new trial is about to start in the UK, seeing if different vaccines can be mixed and matched in a two-dose...
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Researchers at Imperial College have been working on a strategy that can make RNA vaccines stretch further. Anna...
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President Biden’s first executive order was what’s being called the hundred-day mask mandate. The day...
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Gravitational waves and black holes
After collecting data for more than twelve years the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves...
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Mutant strains of SARS-Cov2 have been identified not only in the UK, where it was first identified, but also in at...
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This has been an incredible year for scientific advance and collaboration, epitomised by the roll out of vaccines...
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It was the end of December 2019 when reports of a new flu like infection first came out of China. Within weeks...
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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 spreading across...
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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 by Covid- 19. Now...
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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 Michael Mann....
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Vaccines – the Covid confusion
While developing new treatments drug companies usually release little useful information on how the clinical trials...
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Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
Tests on patients for up to 8 months following their infection with SARS- CoV-2 suggests an immune response can...
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The WHO is working with China to try and pinpoint the source of SARS- COV-2. Sian Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of...
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Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
All the farmed mink in Denmark are to be killed. Around 17 million. This is because they have SARS COV-2 coronavirus...
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Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
Last week NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu’s crumbly surface. But...
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NASA probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid
Science in Action talks to NASA researcher Hannah Kaplan, who is part of the team for the space agency’s...
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Why is there such a range in the number of deaths from Covid -29 between countries? A study of the data across 21...
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