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Category: Science
Why is New Zealand seemingly giving up on its zero-covi...
New Zealand is being forced to abandon its zero-covid strategy as the delta variant overcomes lockdown measures it used to stamp o...
Covid-19 news: Pfizer vaccine 90% effective against hos...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Covid-19 news: New Zealand plans to phase out eliminati...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Medicine Nobel awarded for explaining how we sense heat...
The 2021 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine has been won by two researchers who discovered how our nerves detect temperature a...
Blue Origin is taking Star Trek’s William Shatner to sp...
The actor William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek, will fly aboard a Blue Origin rocket on 12 October
Woman’s depression treated by an implant responding to ...
A treatment for depression that involves putting electrodes into the brain to respond to unique neural patterns has seen success f...
Lubricating arthritic knees with synthetic fluid may he...
Painful knee arthritis may occur when cartilage breaks down and increases friction in joints, but tests in rats suggest a syntheti...
People in cities have faced huge increase in heat expos...
The world’s city dwellers collectively experienced 119 billion days above 30°C in 2016 – a 199 per cent increase on the equivalent...
People reached remote Atlantic islands 700 years earlie...
The Azores, some 1400 kilometres off the west coast of Europe, were settled by the Portuguese in the 1400s, but now there’s eviden...
Marie Antoinette's censored love letters have been read...
Love letters that Marie Antoinette wrote to a Swedish count have been impossible to read because he added extra handwriting on top...
Covid-19 news: Study finds benefits of teen vaccination...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Female cleaner fish can judge when to cheat without get...
Female cleaner fish deceive their male partners when the pair are cleaning a client fish, but only if the male is out of sight, su...