All posts tagged "Science"
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52FeaturedJournal retracts study that promoted hydroxychloroquine as Covid treatment | Coronavirus
A controversial study that promoted hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a treatment for Covid-19 has officially been withdrawn. On Tuesday, Elsevier, a...
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20FeaturedCan you solve it? All you need to know about 2025 | Mathematics
As is traditional for the final column of year, we look ahead to all that the following twelve months will bring us....
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241FeaturedDid you solve it? All you need to know about 2025 | Mathematics
Earlier today I set you the following two puzzles loosely related to 2025. (For more information on the number 2025 please read...
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9Featured'World's best-preserved mammoth' found in Siberia – video
Researchers in Russia have unveiled the near intact carcass of a juvenile female mammoth, whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing...
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29FeaturedNorthern Lights Photographer of the Year – 2024 | Science
The Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection from Capture the Atlas features the most extraordinary aurora photos captured over the 12...
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26FeaturedAre we ready for another pandemic? | Global development
Five years ago, the world was hearing the first reports of a mysterious flu-like illness emerging from Wuhan, China, now known as...
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20FeaturedDrone footage shows dinosaur footprints unearthed in Oxfordshire – video | Dinosaurs
Researchers have unearthed 200 large dinosaur footprints in Oxfordshire, believed to be the biggest site of its kind in the UK. They...
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10FeaturedI can just see those dinosaurs plodding through the Cotswold mud | Mike Pitts
There are many reasons to be excited about the dinosaur footprints whose discovery was announced last week. They will bring new understandings...
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15Featured‘Everything we were taught about success is wrong’: how to find true fulfilment in your life and career | Life and style
Author Annie Dillard wrote that “how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”. So, how was it...
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26FeaturedSibling rivalry: parents favour older children and daughters, study finds | Parents and parenting
As Philip Larkin once noted, your mum and dad have a lasting effect on you. Now, researchers have revealed which siblings in...
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22FeaturedCan you solve it? Interview questions for aspiring billionaires | Mathematics
The book The Founders by Jimmy Soni tells the story of the Paypal Mafia – the tech bros who founded and ran...
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27FeaturedDid you solve it? Interview questions for aspiring billionaires | Science
Earlier today I set you three puzzles that were interview questions at Paypal, the online payments company ran by a group of...
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10FeaturedAstronaut Sunita Williams embarks on first of two spacewalks
Watch: Astronaut stuck in space station ventures outside NASA astronaut Suni Williams, one of two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station,...
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24FeaturedAre we hardwired to commit ‘deadly sins’? – podcast
Scientists are increasingly finding that behaviours once seen as depraved often have a direct physical cause. To find out more, Ian Sample...
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511FeaturedLook at the underside of a log, and you’ll find my new obsession: the beautiful, bonkers world of slime moulds | Lucy Jones
A few years ago, I started looking at the underside of logs and it changed my life. I found a secret carnival...
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16FeaturedAI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi
How do you do, fellow humans? My name is Arwa and I am a genuine member of the species homo sapiens. We’re...
