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Four special projects in the MENA region leading the way to NET ZERO 2050
As I highlight in my newly published book "The Renaissance of Smart Energy", the...
Many drugs have mirror image chemical structures – while one may be helpful, the other may be harmful
The effects a drug or chemical compound have on the body depend on how its atoms...
Helping cells become better protein factories could improve gene therapies and other treatments – a new technique shows how
The cells in your body are not all the same. Each of your organs has cells with...
Is the James Webb Space Telescope finding the furthest, oldest, youngest or first galaxies? An astronomer explains
We’ve now seen the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope
To build sustainable cities, involve those who live in them
Cities have an important role in making progress on sustainability and climate change...
Three-eyed Cambrian fossils shed new light on arthropod head evolution
The Burgess Shale is located in British Columbia and is a site of marine fossils...
How could the Big Bang arise from nothing?
Strangely enough, some cosmologists believe a previous, cold dark empty universe...
Artificial light at night can change the behaviour of all animals, not just humans
As the Moon rises on a warm evening in early summer, thousands of baby turtles emerge...
Perfectly imperfect: the discovery of the second-largest pink diamond has left the world in awe. What gives diamonds their colour?
Usually when goods are flawed, we expect their value to drop, but it’s the exact...
Feeding insects to cattle could make meat and milk production more sustainable
The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone
Three reasons concrete doesn’t live up to its environmental claims
Up to 8% of all global anthropogenic human-made emissions are due to just one material,...
The Marburg virus: urgent need to contain this close cousin of Ebola
In July 2022 Ghana confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a...
1st international camel safety conference held in Saudi
A first-of-its-kind conference on camel safety concluded with pledges from delegates...
New COVID variants may be more transmissible but that doesn’t mean the R0 – or basic reproduction number – has increased
During the pandemic we have all become familiar with a lot of epidemiological concepts
The Nordic diet: fans claim it rivals its Mediterranean counterpart for health benefits – here’s what we know
Every month there seems to be a new diet doing the rounds online
James Lovelock: the scientist-inventor who transformed our view of life on Earth
James Lovelock, the maverick scientist and inventor, died surrounded by his family...