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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New Covid vaccine

Next-generation of RNA vaccine

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Mixing Covid vaccines

Can Covid vaccines be mixed?

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Perseverance approaches Mars

How Perseverance will land on Mars

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Weird weather

Why is there snow in Texas?

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Waste not, want not

Novel recycling to make new products

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Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull

Neanderthal hearing, CO2 emissions in 2020, the Brazilian variant and scanning Little Foot

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A shooting star parked on your driveway

A rare type of meteorite lands next to a rural UK house, and is now in professional hands

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International science at sea

International research collaborations feel the pinch of UK cap on development spending

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Science on the side of a new volcano

Fagradalsfjall, hints of leptoquark, and the 2020 rise of the preprint

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Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital

A third of people hospitalised for covid are readmitted sometime after discharge.

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On the trail of rare blood clots

Scientists in the EU and the UK are looking out for rare blood clots in vaccinated people.

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Rolling out the vaccines faster

Can more money speed up rollout?

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Exponential increase in Indian covid cases

What’s behind the soaring numbers?

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Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan

Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan.

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Africa’s oldest burial

A fossilised child reveals an ancient caring society

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Covid and clean air

How improving indoor air quality can prevent illness from many viruses

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Robot revolution

The robot arm that comes with feelings

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Nyiragongo eruption

Understanding the world’s "most dangerous volcano"

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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.

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Evolving viral variant trickery

Researchers describe mechanisms by which the virus variants are tricking our cells.

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Doubling Earth’s energy imbalance

Nasa scientists find a doubling of our planet’s net solar energy absorption in 15 years

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Tales of unexpected DNA data

A virologist uncovers more dots to join in the hunt for Covid’s origins.

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Insects in incredible detail

New technology gives intricate 3D scans of insects

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Human induced climate change heats up fast

The record-breaking recent Pacific North-West heatwave is attributable to humans.

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Science when the funding dries up

The UK Government’s cap on Official Development Aid, and its consequences for science.

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Your molecular machinery, now in 3D

DeepMind publishes 350,000 of the structures which make all living things tick.

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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?

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Record-shattering weather

Why we should expect more sudden extreme temperatures

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Methane: A climate solution?

Can reductions in this potent greenhouse gas help keep global temperature rises down?

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Seismic citizen science in Hispaniola

Is there more to come from the Haitian earthquake fault system?

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World’s first DNA Covid vaccine

Authorities in India approve a new type of needle-free triple-dose vaccine

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Hurricane season intensifies

Climate change increases the havoc caused by Hurricane Ida across parts of the US.

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Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal

Unexploited oil, gas and coal reserves must stay in the ground to avert temperature rise

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Ebola can remain dormant for five years

Ebola infections can re-emerge after five years, and cause new outbreaks

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New evidence for Sars-CoV-2’s origin in bats

Study of bats in Laos has identified viruses with a similar spike protein to Sars-CoV-2

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Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa

The spread of resistance to one of the most important anti-malarials

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Youngest rock samples from the moon

Youngest samples from lava flows on the moon returned by Chang’e-5 mission

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Wetlands under attack

The invasive cordgrass taking over China’s coastal wetlands.

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Red blood cells’ surprising immune function

New research reveals red blood cells form part of the body’s immune defence.

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Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?

The UNEP Emissions Gap Report reveals we need to do more to reach our climate goals.

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Jet fuel from thin air

A solar powered solution to emissions creates aviation fuel from atmospheric gases

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Bambi got Covid

Why the discovery of Covid 19 in white-tail deer has implications for climate policy

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The end for coal power?

The fossil fuel is on target to be replaced with renewables in both India and China.

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Deliberately doomed dart

The sacrificial space mission designed to protect the Earth from asteroid impact.

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Omicron, racism and trust

How the global political response to the new variant is hampering science in Africa

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Can the weather trigger a volcano?

The eruption of Semeru in Java was linked to heavy rain

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Omicron’s rapid replication rate

Omicron replicates seventy times faster than earlier variants.

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Omicron – mild or monster?

Cases of the latest coronavirus variant are mild, so far – but that’s not the whole story

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2021: The year of variants

The year began with Alpha, and ends with Omicron. What have we learnt?

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Corbevax – A vaccine for the world?

Could a cheap and conventional vaccine for Covid-19 end the pandemic?

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Have we got it wrong on Omicron?

It seems to be no more viable than the earlier delta variant

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Tonga eruption – how it happened

Why a small volcanic eruption had a global impact

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The roots of Long Covid

Detecting the early signals for long Covid

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Identifying a more infectious HIV variant

A new form of HIV has been uncovered in the Netherlands.

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Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab

The inside story of Wuhan’s coronavirus lab

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Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology

Messenger RNA used in vaccines against Covid-19 has been used to encourage bone healing

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Reforming the ‘China Initiative’

US scheme accused of persecuting scientists is to be refocused

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Covid -19 origins

New analysis shows where inside the Wuhan market the virus first showed itself

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Why are Covid-19 cases rising in Hong Kong?

The territory is experiencing a rapid increase in infections and deaths

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Covid in the sewers

Could novel forms of the virus be lurking in wastewater?

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Warming world

Extreme temperatures recorded in Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Radioactive Red Forest

Are Russian troops in forests around Chernobyl receiving a dangerous dose of radiation?

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Tsunami detective in Tonga

What really happened in the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga in January?

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How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression

Brain scanning study reveals how psilocybin can help people with severe depression

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Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden

Solar geoengineering to curb climate change could worsen global malaria burden.

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The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave

The Indian subcontinent is roasting in a prolonged heatwave. Is climate change to blame?

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Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100

Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta is set to sink beneath the sea by the end of the century

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Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart

Astronomers image the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy

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Death in the rainforest

Climate change may have doubled the death rate of rainforest trees over the last 50 years

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Heat death by volcano and other stories

New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed

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Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?

Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.

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Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts

A medical scan which reveals where HIV and other viruses hide in the body.

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Thirty years after the Earth Summit

Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?

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Monster microbe

Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.

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Extreme heat death risk in Latin America

New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities

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