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New Hope For Those With Peanut Allergies
An expensive new treatment promises gradually to protect allergic children from accidental…
Hunting Ghost Particles At The South Pole
A look at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the amazing astrophysics research…
Precision Landing For Mars 2020 At Jezero
As its July 2020 launch date approaches, more information is coming to…
A New Theory Suggests Aliens Could Use Neutrinos Or Gravitational Waves To Communicate
Imagine a super-advanced civilisation capable of building on a galactic scale, enjoying…
3D-Printed Fake Fish To Hit Supermarket Shelves
San Diego start-up BlueNalu has found a way to make a plant-based…
Post Fires, Will Australia Reconsider Climate Change? (Part 2)
The bushfire emergency has killed over a billion animals and decimated national…
Post Fires, Will Australia Reconsider Climate Change?
With 1.5% of Australia’s land mass burnt in disastrous bushfires – an…
Climate Change, Not Just A Rogue Asteroid, Killed The Dinosaurs
Fossilised Antarctic seashells show the planet was unstable, warmed by intense volcanism,…
World’s Oceans Have A Million Times More Plastic Than We Thought
New measurement methods show that pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm…
Space Bugs That Eat Rock And Metal
Metallosphaera sedula is a single-celled organism and hails from some of the…
Preserving Pirated Scientific Papers
Library Genesis and Sci-Huh have evolved into very popular and massive repositories…
Suspended Animation For The Critically Injured
Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have used emergency…
How To Really Lose Weight
If you lose 1 kg of body weight, where does it go?…
The Way You Move Makes You Unique
A French-Australian study finds the way your muscle groups work together is…
Our Restless Earth (Part 2)
Physicist Dr Tony Heyes tells how the Serbian polymath Milutin Milankovic, interned…
Our Restless Earth (Part 1)
In this fascinating discussion, Physicist Dr Tony Heyes explains the background and…
Coming To Grips With The Science Behind Buruli Ulcers
Piers talks with leading experts on Buruli ulcers Professor Tim Stinear of…
Lab-grown Meat Coming Of Age
Production costs are falling dramatically and the day may come when a…
Facebook Zealots Likened To Drug Addicts
A recent Michigan State University study published in the Journal of Behavioural…
The Iron-ion Battery From India
Newly developed at the Institute of Technology in Madras, iron-ion batteries are…