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Back to SearchExtinction Rebellion, UK net zero emissions and climate change; Nobel Prizes
Extinction Rebellion is in the news with its stated aim of civil disobedience and protest, and goal to compel governments around the world to act on …
6 years, 6 months ago
HIV protective gene paper retraction, Imaging ancient Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson's The Body
In November 2018 news broke via YouTube that He Jiankui, then a professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China had cre…
6 years, 6 months ago
Oceans, ice and climate change; Neolithic baby bottles; Caroline Criado-Perez wins RS Book Prize
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report on the oceans and cryosphere makes pretty grim reading on the state of our seas and ic…
6 years, 6 months ago
MOSAiC Arctic super-expedition, Likely extinction of the Bahama nuthatch, Tim Smedley's book on air pollution
On Friday, 20 September, a powerful icebreaker called The Polarstern will set sail from Tromsø, Norway, with the aim of getting stuck into the polar …
6 years, 7 months ago
Model embryos from stem cells, Paul Steinhardt's book on impossible crystals, Mother Thames
One of the most fundamental developmental stages we humans go through is extremely poorly understood. The first few days of the embryo, once it's bee…
6 years, 7 months ago
Inventing GPS, Carbon nanotube computer, Steven Strogatz and Monty Lyman discuss calculus and skin
Global Positioning System, or GPS is perhaps the best known of the satellite navigation systems, helping us find our way every day. Back in the 1970'…
6 years, 7 months ago
Amazon fires, Royal Society Book Prize shortlist announced, John Gribben on quantum physics
Satellite data has shown an 85% increase in the number of fires across Brazil this year. There are more than 2,500 fires active across the Amazon reg…
6 years, 7 months ago
UK's black squirrels' genetic heritage; nuclear fusion in the UK and the Royal Society's science book prize
Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to spot the uncommon black grey squirrel in the UK. The bizarre mutation that causes a change in fur colour has fina…
6 years, 7 months ago
UK power cut, Huge dinosaur find in Wyoming, Micro-plastics in Arctic snow
Following the simultaneous outages of two UK power plants last Friday, affecting nearly 1 million people across the country, we at Inside Science wan…
6 years, 8 months ago
Making the UK's dams safe, AI spots fake smiles, How many trees should we be planting?
In the light of the evacuation of the Derbyshire town of Whaley Bridge due to damage to the Todbrook reservoir dam and the threat of a catastrophic c…
6 years, 8 months ago