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General election 2019: Why you should think climate change not Brexit

General election 2019: Why you should think climate change not Brexit

27 November 2019

Brexit may seem important right now, but whoever wins the election will be in charge halfway to 2030 – a crucial time in efforts to limit dangerous warming, says Jacob Aron


Why the medicine you take could actually be bad for your health

Why the medicine you take could actually be bad for your health

27 November 2019

Rushing medicines to market is supposed to help people in need. But relying on lower standards of evidence may ultimately cause more harm than good.


A picture of a wind turbine in front of a power station

UN report reveals how hard it will be to meet climate change targets

26 November 2019

Carbon emissions from human activity have never fallen globally, but to keep global warming to 1.5°C they need to tumble by nearly 8 per cent every year for the next decade


Jupiter red spot

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is healthy despite looking like it’s dying

25 November 2019

The Red Spot on Jupiter seems to be breaking apart, but a computer model suggests the vortex is fine and it’s the clouds above the storm that are being shredded


blue whale

A blue whale's heart beats just twice a minute when it dives for food

25 November 2019

We have checked the pulse of a wild-living blue whale for the first time and discovered that the animal's heart beats surprisingly slowly while it is feeding


fake news

People share fake news online even when they can tell it's not true

24 November 2019

People can easily identify fake news, but may unwittingly share it on social media because they aren't thinking about accuracy. A simple prompt could help solve the problem


sea ice

We may be closer than we thought to Earth's dangerous tipping points

23 November 2019

We know that the climate can start changing irreversibly if it warms past certain thresholds, and these tipping points may strike unexpectedly soon


The main spectrometer of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment

The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved

22 November 2019

We have a refined estimate for the mass of the neutrino, the most abundant massive particle in the Universe: its mass is 500,000 times less than an electron


An MRI scan of the heart

An AI doctor is analysing heart scans in dozens of hospitals

22 November 2019

Doctors are using artificial intelligence in dozens of hospitals to help them make sense of MRI images of the heart


Phoenix demo setup, pipe-loop with sensor agents for mapping and exploring unknown water environments, by Elena Talnishnikh Integrated Circuits, group Peter Baltus, Electrical Engineering, TU Eindhoven

Swarms of golf ball-sized robots could detect leaks in the sewers

22 November 2019

Swarms of robots could help map out underground networks and detect leaks as they float through pipes


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