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Back to SearchNew CFC emissions, Cannabis and the Environment, The Noisy Cocktail Party, Automated Face Recognition
New CFC emissions Researchers say that they have pinpointed the major sources of a mysterious recent rise in a dangerous, ozone-destroying chemical. …
6 years, 10 months ago
Hubble Not-So Constant, Synthetic E. Coli, The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt
The Hubble Constant The Hubble constant is the current expansion rate of the universe but it seems to have changed over time. Hiranya Peiris, Profess…
6 years, 11 months ago
Forensic science provision, optimal garden watering strategy, and a mystery knee bone
A damning House of Lords' report into the provision of forensic science in England and Wales makes for uncomfortable reading for some but is broadly …
6 years, 11 months ago
Sex, gender and sport - the Caster Semenya case and the latest Denisovan discovery
In 2018, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) introduced new eligibility regulations for female athletes with differences in…
6 years, 11 months ago
Thought-to-speech machine, City Nature Challenge, Science of Storytelling
Patients who suffer neurological impairments preventing them from speaking potentially face a severely limited existence. Being able to express yours…
6 years, 11 months ago
Notre-Dame fire, Reviving pig brains, ExoMars, Evolution of faces
The horror of the blazing Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris has been slightly quenched by the fact that so much of the French landmark has been saved. Bu…
7 years ago
Visualising a black hole, Homo luzonensis, Two ways to overcome antimicrobial resistance
"We have now seen the unseeable" according to scientists who are part of the Event Horizon Telescope group. The international team has released a pic…
7 years ago
Cretaceous catastrophe fossilised, LIGO and Virgo, Corals, Forensic shoeprint database
About 66 million years ago an asteroid at least 6 miles wide crashed into the Earth, in the shallow sea that is now the Yucatan Peninsular in Mexico.…
7 years ago
UK pollinating insect numbers, Tracking whales using barnacles, Sleep signals
One of the longest running insect pollinator surveys in the world, shows that a few generalist pollinators are on the increase, whereas specialist in…
7 years ago
Where next World Wide Web? Space rocks and worms
30 years ago Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web as a way to let physicists share their papers and data on a distributed network. It's change…
7 years ago