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Layal Liverpool

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Layal Liverpool is a science journalist based in Berlin, Germany. Layal is a regular New Scientist contributor reporting on the latest developments in health, the environment, technology and space. She has a PhD in virology and immunology. She is the author of Systemic: How racism is making us ill.

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Race is a social construct, but racism can cause real biological harm

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Race is a social construct, but racism can cause real biological harm

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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 17: A statue of J. Marion Sims, a surgeon celebrated by many as the father of modern gynecology, is driven away in a Parks Department truck after being taken down from its pedestal at Central Park and East 103rd Street on April 17, 2018 in New York City. A New York City panel decided to move the controversial statue after groups demanded its removal as many of Sims medical breakthroughs came from experimenting on black slaves without anesthesia. The statue will be relocated in Green-Wood Cemetery in Windsor Terrace, where Sims is buried. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Comment

Divided review: Why we must eliminate racism from Western healthcare

Culture

microscope images showing ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli (credit: University of Oxford)

Health

Become a citizen scientist in the fight against antibiotic resistance

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Big Microplastic Survey. Layal?s Citizen Science Maker for 18th Feb. Photos from Layla's survey.

Environment

Help to create a global map of ocean microplastic pollution

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Launching vehicle loaded with an ORCA type detection unit KM3NeT - LOM-on-anchor.jpg KM3NeT the next generation neutrino telescopes KM3NeT is a research infrastructure housing the next generation neutrino telescopes. Once completed, the telescopes will have detector volumes between megaton and several cubic kilometres of clear sea water. Located in the deepest seas of the Mediterranean, KM3NeT will open a new window on our Universe, but also contribute to the research of the properties of the elusive neutrino particles. With the ARCA telescope, KM3NeT scientists will search for neutrinos from distant astrophysical sources such as supernovae, gamma ray bursters or colliding stars. The ORCA telescope is the instrument for KM3NeT scientists studying neutrino properties exploiting neutrinos generated in the Earth's atmosphere. Arrays of thousands of optical sensors will detect the faint light in the deep sea from charged particles originating from collisions of the neutrinos and the Earth. The facility will also house instrumentation for Earth and Sea sciences for long-term and on-line monitoring of the deep sea environment and the sea bottom at depth of several kilometers.

Earth

Help in the hunt for neutrinos while exploring deep-sea ecosystems

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2F26A1N Three partridges flapping wings in the snow

Life

Join the Christmas Bird Count and contribute to conservation research

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Example of a graph with an arch-shaped peak

Space

Join the hunt for clouds high up in the Martian atmosphere

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Study your local pond to help track algal growth around the world

Environment

Study your local pond to help track algal growth around the world

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J3TX0E Splattering of dead insects on a car windscreen, windshield whilst driving along a road with signs and road white markings.

Society

Count the bugs "splatted" on your car to help track insect decline

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A Moderna covid-19 vaccine is prepared

Health

Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

News

Do your own experiment to see if your teabags really are compostable

Humans

Do your own experiment to see if your teabags really are compostable

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TESS spacecraft in front of Earth and the moon TESS will look at the nearest, brightest stars to find planetary candidates that scientists will observe for years to come. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center As the search for life on distant planets heats up, NASA?s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is bringing this hunt closer to home. Launching in 2017-2018, TESS will identify planets orbiting the brightest stars just outside our solar system using what?s known as the transit method. When a planet passes in front of, or transits, its parent star, it blocks some of the star's light. TESS searches for these telltale dips in brightness, which can reveal the planet's presence and provide additional information about it.

Space

Search starlight to help astronomers discover new exoplanets

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