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A person receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine inside a vaccination centre at St Johns Church in London, Britain, December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKayLONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The cha… [read more]
Science
Science is such an interesting double-edged sword. On one end, science provides innumerable life-saving innovations and technological conveniences that are integral to our continued survival as a spe… [read more]
How refreshing to hear a GP recognising that recovering from illness may depend on going off-piste, leaving the well-trimmed paths of textbook solutions in favour of something wilder, more unscripted… [read more]
For a variant that came to light less than a month ago, the evidence for Omicrons potential to wreak havoc has mounted at breakneck speed. What studies have emerged are rapid first takes, but the mes… [read more]
The biggest success of the fossil fuel industrys decades-long campaign to push doubt about climate science is that it forced the conversation about the climate crisis to centre on science.
Its not t… [read more]
Among brain researchers there’s a truism that says the reason people underestimate how much unconscious processing goes on in your brain is because you’re not conscious of it. And while there is a lo… [read more]
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JAKARTA, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s government is facing criticism from some top scientists and lawmakers that a sweeping restructuring bringing together the country’s leading science and technol… [read more]
The billionaire space race
Space made the headlines on many occasions in 2021: the landing of Nasas Perseverance rover on Mars, the arrival of a rare meteorite in the UK, the launch of a mission to … [read more]
The Actual Star by Monica Byrne (Voyager, £20)In her second novel, Byrne braids together three storylines, each set a thousand years apart. The final days of 1012 are depicted through the experiences… [read more]
A round-up of decades of research into a fairly “external” idea with viruses from space begs the question of how scientific we can be when it comes to speculating about the history of life on earth. … [read more]
