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The hunt for patient zero: Where did the coronavirus outbreak start?

The hunt for patient zero: Where did the coronavirus outbreak start?

1 April 2020

Growing evidence suggests the covid-19 outbreak may not have started at Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Market in December after all. Finding its origins may help us stop it happening again
Spring-powered shoes could help us run more than 50 per cent faster

Spring-powered shoes could help us run more than 50 per cent faster

25 March 2020

A spring-powered exoskeleton that minimises the amount of energy our legs lose when running could help boost human running speeds by more than 50 per cent

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