Flower power: How plants bounce back after crushing blows
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A busy lizzie, an example of a flower able to recover quickly from being trampled on
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Coronavirus complicates journeys home from Antarctica
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A UK-US research team was working on a ship off West Antarctica when the pandemic was declared
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Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish
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Researcher Mark Meekan diving with a whale shark
Data from atomic bomb tests conducted [...]
Coronavirus will transform UK work and travel, says AA
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Is the infrastructure we need for the future better motorways or broadband super-highways?
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10 years to save 'world’s most threatened sea turtle'
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Numbers are declining due to accidental fishing and egg collecting
The largest [...]
Dr William Frankland, allergy scientist pioneer, dies aged 108
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Dr William Frankland, a British immunologist who transformed the world’s understanding of allergies, has died aged 108.
His pioneering work included developing [...]
Coronavirus: Expert panel to assess face mask use by public
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Should more of us wear face masks to help slow the spread of coronavirus?
This question is to be assessed by a panel of advisers to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Oceans can be successfully restored by 2050, say scientists
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Despite being treated as humanity’s rubbish dump for decades, the oceans of the world are proving remarkably resilient, says a new scientific review.
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Self-isolation proves a boon to rainfall project
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Scientists have been amazed at the public’s response to help digitise the UK’s old rainfall records.
Handwritten numbers on documents dating back [...]
Machine translates brainwaves into sentences
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Brain activity was fed into a computer system, which recognised recurring features in the data
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