The eclipse that made Einstein famous

A solar eclipse 100 years ago proved Einstein’s theory was onto something

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US foetal tissue research ban

The Trump administration halts scientific research on tissue derived from human embryos

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South Asia heatwave and climate change

South Asia has experienced record temperatures, is this becoming the new normal?

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Iran’s nuclear plans

What the threat to increase stockpiles of uranium really means

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Is climate change driving Europe’s current heatwave?

Scientists are unpicking the influence of anthropogenic forces on this event as it happens

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Analysing the European heatwave

An analysis of weather and climate variables shows global warming had a role

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'Free' water and electricity for the world?

The solar panel which simultaneously produces electricity and purifies water

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The moon landing and another big space anniversary

The comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 spectacularly crashed into Jupiter 25 years ago.

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The human danger – for sharks

A global appetite for shark meat and fins threatens these iconic predators

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The snowball effect of Arctic fires

The long term consequences of the intense burning across the region

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Keeping tabs on nuclear weapons

Can science overcome the political impasse in nuclear proliferation policy?

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Cracking the case of the Krakatoa volcano collapse

Scientists investigate the precise physical events around last year’s lethal eruption.

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Amazonian fires likely to worsen

Is it going to be a particularly bad burning season for Brazil’s rainforest?

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Nanotube computer says hello

A 16bit computer processor made of carbon nanotubes is unveiled to the world.

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New evidence of nuclear reactor explosion

An isotopic fingerprint is reported of a nuclear explosion in Russia last month

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Embryoids from stem cells

Embryoids from stem cells; water vapour in atmosphere of rocky exoplanet;

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South East Asia choking - again

Why even staying indoors offers no escape from fires across the region

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Global climate inaction

The latest climate report look like earlier ones, where is the call to action?

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Drought likely to follow India’s floods

Despite extreme rainfall, climate scientists predict drought in India within months.

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From batteries to distant worlds

Nobel Prize wins for a range of well-known discoveries

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Malaria's origins and a potential new treatment

How malaria jumped from great apes to humans and why Antarctica may hold a new treatment

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Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?

Has a new era of computing finally arrived or not, or is it both at the same time?

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Wildfires and winds in California

How dry land and high winds are fuelling fires in California

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Climate in crisis

Inaction on climate change while the impact of air pollution is likened to smoking

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Australia burning

To what extent is ‘Bush fire weather’ influenced by climate change?

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Politics and Amazonia’s fires

Satellite data shows this year’s Amazon fires have been the worst since 2010.

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New malaria target

Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance

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CRISPR babies scandal – more details

Evidence for a series of scientific and ethical errors have emerged

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White Island volcano eruption

Why a small eruption on White Island was so dangerous

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Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption

How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami

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Gaming climate change

Can a role-playing game improve climate negotiation outcomes?

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Adapting California

Living with the threat of fires and earthquakes.

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Australia’s extreme fire season

2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires

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Mount Taal volcano

Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning

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New Coronavirus

What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China

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Understanding the new coronavirus

Analysis of the impact of the new virus

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Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?

Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?

• 26 mins

CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak

A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading

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Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk

Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk

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Tracking coronavirus spread

More new cases of Covid-19 are now outside China than inside - how can we map the virus?

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Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change

Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate.

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Covid -19 how infectious is it really?

The pattern of transmission and prospects for drug treatments.

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Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?

Research from Italy and China, shows many people have the coronavirus but no symptoms

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The science of social distancing

Why staying home is the best defence against Covid -19

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Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins

As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19?

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Covid 19 - the threat to refugees

The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps

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Italy, getting Covid-19 under control

Tentative steps to relax the lockdown

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Presidents and pandemics

Why they don’t mix

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Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19

Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery

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Covid -19 new hope from blood tests

Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19

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Loosening lockdown

Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.

• 37 mins

Covid-19 vaccines

More than a hundred vaccines are in development to fight the virus

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Brazil’s Covid chaos

The number of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show

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The medical complexity of Covid -19

Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart

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Food security, locusts and Covid -19

Efforts to eradicate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic

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Covid -19 hope for severe cases

A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful

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Record high temperatures – in the Arctic

Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit

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Covid -19 and Children

Why a minority become gravely ill is still a mystery

• 31 mins

Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test

African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method

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How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?

New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.

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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people

The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.

• 34 mins

NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake

NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars

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Counting the heat health threat from climate change

Huge death toll from rising temperatures projected for century’s end.

• 32 mins

Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine

Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine.

• 37 mins

Trouble in Greenland

Has the loss from Greenland’s vast ice sheet reached a tipping point?

• 32 mins

Covid-19 therapy controversy

Is convalescent plasma really a ‘tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19?

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Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?

More than 2 million people live around this volcano, which has become more active

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Covid -19 science versus politics

Are the politicians finally coming round to the scientist’s views on the way forward?

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Malaria resistance breakthrough

Discovered in East Africa, the finding holds promise for completely new treatments.

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Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission

They are only designed to prevent disease developing, none have been tested against spread

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Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?

The world’s largest study of Covid-19 transmission shows children have a major role.

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Do Covid–19 mutations matter?

Results from the most detailed investigation to date into SARS –CoV-2 virus mutations

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Covid-19 mortality

Why is there such a range in the number of deaths from Covid -19 between countries?

• 35 mins

Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid

Osiris Rex probe touches asteroid Bennu to sample secrets of the early solar system

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Osiris Rex stows asteroid material

Successful closure of lid on Osiris Rex spacecraft

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Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans

What does transmission of coronavirus from mink to humans mean for the future vaccine?

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Covid-19 defeats US Marines

The virus spread amongst recruits despite a range of thorough precautions

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Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity

After infection or vaccination immunity to the virus may be long lasting

• 35 mins

Vaccines – the Covid confusion

The problems with incomplete or contradictory trial data published by press release.

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Freak weather getting even freakier

This year has seen record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, and now an Australian heatwave

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The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus

Around three-quarters of the Brazilian city’s population are thought to have been infected

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Covid -19 – Mutations are normal

Viral mutations happen all the time but we still need to be wary of their impact.

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A year with Covid -19

Looking back on how the virus emerged and the scientific response

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Coping with Covid

Making sense of a year of confusion

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New variants of SARS-Cov2

SARS-Cov2: UK and South African new variants

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Gravitational waves and black holes

Gravitational waves from colliding supermassive black holes

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Saving the Northern White Rhino

Bringing back the Northern White Rhino from extinction

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