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The race to find and stop viruses that could cause the next pandemic

The race to find and stop viruses that could cause the next pandemic

25 November 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is still raging, but the clock is ticking towards the next big virus threat – can we track it down before it makes the leap from animals to humans?
Can a law meant to protect Native American artefacts free an orca?

Can a law meant to protect Native American artefacts free an orca?

25 November 2020

Members of the Native American Lummi Nation consider a captive orca called Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut to be their kin. Now they are using extraordinary means to gain her release
The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology

The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology

25 November 2020

Different measurements of the Hubble constant, the rate of space-time expansion, refuse to agree – meaning we may have to look beyond Einstein’s theories to explain the universe

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