On January 13th, 2021 with 145 comments
British spacecraft could travel to Mars in half the time it now takes by using nuclear propulsion engines built by Rolls-Royce under a new deal with the UK...
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On January 5th, 2021 with 238 comments
UK scientists have expressed concern that COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out in Britain may not be able to protect against a new variant of the coronavirus...
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On December 9th, 2020 with 175 comments
Britain's medicine regulator warned people with significant allergies not to get Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine after two people suffered adverse...
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On December 2nd, 2020 with 109 comments
Hope Thelps shares a report: The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass...
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On November 11th, 2020 with 54 comments
A British firm has won a European Space Agency contract to develop the technology to turn moon dust and rocks into oxygen, leaving behind aluminium, iron and...
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On October 7th, 2020 with 48 comments
Spurred by Brexit, London is backing companies that will build satellites and haul them into orbit. From a report: Cornwall, in England's far southwest, is...
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On September 29th, 2020 with 126 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Tesco is to become the first UK retailer to set a sales target for plant-based alternatives to meat as...
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On July 27th, 2020 with 80 comments
Jennifer Riggins is participating in the Oxford Vaccine Trial. She's an American technology journalist and marketer who's self-employed in London — and...
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On July 23rd, 2020 with 83 comments
The UK and US have accused Russia of launching a weapon-like projectile from a satellite in space. Joe2020 shares a report: In a statement, the head of the...
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On May 6th, 2020 with 123 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Public trust in the work of scientists and health experts has grown during the coronavirus pandemic,...
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On May 2nd, 2020 with 11 comments
Pioneering Australian scientist Robert May, whose work in biology led to the development of chaos theory, has died at age 84. The Guardian reports: Known as...
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On April 23rd, 2020 with 183 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected,...
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On April 11th, 2020 with 203 comments
The New York Post reports that a COVID-19 vaccine "may be six months away, according to a researcher leading a team of scientists in England."
"I think there's...
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On April 6th, 2020 with 405 comments
Boris Johnson has been taken into the hospital intensive care unit for treatment for coronavirus after his condition worsened, his office said. The Guardian...
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On March 27th, 2020 with 349 comments
For weeks, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was a defiant holdout among Western leaders in refusing to lock down his country against the spread of the coronavirus....
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On March 11th, 2020 with 526 comments
President Trump announced he will restrict travel from Europe to the U.S. for the next 30 days in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The "strong...
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On November 18th, 2019 with 142 comments
AmiMoJo writes: A woman is suing a London NHS trust for not revealing her father had been diagnosed with Huntington's disease before she had her own child. She...
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On October 31st, 2019 with 221 comments
Cambridge University researchers say some inhalers are bad for the environment because they release greenhouse gases linked to global warming. They recommend...
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On October 21st, 2019 with 58 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Higher air pollution in the UK trigger hundreds more heart attacks, strokes and acute asthma attacks each...
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On July 13th, 2019 with 45 comments
"The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has announced what it claims is a world first: a partnership with Amazon's Alexa to offer health advice from the NHS...
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On June 30th, 2019 with 123 comments
Lancaster University has announced a "universal computer memory" breakthrough combining the fast, low-energy storage of DRAM memory with the robustness of...
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On June 6th, 2019 with 86 comments
"In recent years, The New York Times has been publishing obituaries of people long dead but who nevertheless would have been deserving of one when they died,"...
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On April 24th, 2019 with 90 comments
dryriver writes: The BBC reports on a 50ft long and only 120kg heavy blimp-like UAV aircraft that is designed to fly at 70,000 feet, is entirely solar powered,...
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On March 17th, 2019 with 88 comments
NBC News reports on how microbiologist Gerry Quinn "followed up on some folklore his family had passed on to him."
Old timers insisted that the dirt in the...
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On March 7th, 2019 with 47 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Following news of a man in the UK who has been free of HIV since his cancer treatment, a similar case...
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On November 13th, 2018 with 27 comments
Google has announced that it's absorbing DeepMind Health, a part of its London-based AI lab DeepMind. "In a blog post, DeepMind's founders said it was a 'major...
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On October 26th, 2018 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Evidence that an entire class of pesticides threatens the health of children and pregnant women is now...
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On October 14th, 2018 with 240 comments
The UK is taking a tentative step towards a radical "green" future with zero emissions of greenhouse gases. From a report: The government is formally seeking...
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On July 8th, 2018 with 113 comments
From a report: It is the most exacting of surgical skills: tying a knot deep inside a patient's abdomen, pivoting long graspers through keyhole incisions with...
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On June 28th, 2018 with 83 comments
Writing in the journal Nano Letters, scientists from Turkey, the U.S. and U.K. describe a material that acts as thermal camouflage. Cosmos reports: Coskun...
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