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Science
One easy way to fight antibiotic resistance? Good hand hygiene
Can washing your hands help stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance? Mathematically,...
Ghana needs more astronomers, astrophysicists, aerospace engineers and astronauts – how to develop them
Perhaps when you think of scientific research in Africa you think of the continent’s...
Imagination makes us human – this unique ability to envision what doesn’t exist has a long evolutionary history
You can easily picture yourself riding a bicycle across the sky even though that’s...
How frontotemporal dementia, the syndrome affecting Bruce Willis, changes the brain – research is untangling its genetic causes
Around 55 million people worldwide suffer from dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease
Rejecting science has a long history – the pandemic showed what happens when you ignore this
Fear engulfed everyone during the pandemic. Yet when a vaccine became available,...
Were viruses around on Earth before living cells emerged? A microbiologist explains
Were there already viruses on Earth when the first living cells appeared billions...
How your brain decides what to think
You’re sitting on the plane, staring out of the window at the clouds and all of...
Insects are vanishing worldwide – now it’s making it harder to grow food
Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there...
Tropical seagrass meadows are sand factories that can help defend coral reef islands from sea-level rise
Seagrasses are flowering plants that form dense underwater meadows in coastal waters...
What is gene editing and how could it shape our future?
It is the most exciting time in genetics since the discovery of DNA in 1953. This...
How do blood tests work? Medical laboratory scientists explain the pathway from blood draw to diagnosis and treatment
Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data...
Seismologists can’t predict an impending earthquake, but longer term forecasts and brief warnings after one starts are possible
Almost like aftershocks, questions about earthquake prediction tend to follow disasters...
How science and innovation can strengthen global food systems
Food systems, from production to consumption, are complex in nature and require...
The world’s first environmental clean-up happened 400 million years ago
One of the biggest environmental challenges today is to treat land that is contaminated...
‘Blue marble’: how half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth
In December 1972, Nasa’s final Apollo mission (Apollo 17) took the iconic “Blue...
Loopholes wide enough to ‘drive a diesel truck through’ – how to tell if a business is really net zero
The science is clear: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must peak before 2025 to prevent...