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Category: Science
Bin tax in England could help the UK meet net zero clim...
Stalled recycling rates in England could be lifted through a bin tax, giving people a financial incentive to send less waste to la...
Astronomers may have found a moon orbiting a rogue plan...
Exomoons are notoriously hard to spot, but it may be easier around free-floating planets that don't orbit stars – and a team of as...
The ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than A...
Each year between August and October, the ozone over the South Pole is depleted – this year the hole is larger than 75 per cent of...
Cheap covid-19 antibody test shows if you have immunity...
A cheap and accurate test that can tell if people have covid-19 antibodies could be used to monitor population immunity from past ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been hit by 100 ‘dust dev...
The Perseverance rover on Mars was hit by 100 dust devils in its first 90 days – the Curiosity rover elsewhere on Mars is hit by t...
Fake TikTok accounts could spread disinformation ahead ...
Video-sharing app TikTok has implemented measures to prevent the spread of disinformation about the upcoming German election, but ...
Male rodents with less time to breed grow bigger testes
Male rodents in species with shorter breeding seasons tend to have larger testes, probably because the time pressure increases spe...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
NASA’s planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope
Astronauts could use their blood and urine to make Mart...
Mixing materials extracted from their own blood and urine with native Martian soil could let astronauts produce a type of concrete...
SpaceX is about to send the first ever all-amateur miss...
SpaceX’s Inspiration4 launch, planned for 15 September, will mark the first time a flight into orbit has been crewed exclusively b...
Jaguars face major threat from Amazon deforestation and...
Prospects for South America's biggest wild cat are likely to get worse in the short term unless the Brazilian government strengthe...
Sharon Peacock interview: How we track down new coronav...
Sharon Peacock leads a group of researchers who started sequencing the genome of the coronavirus in March 2020 and identified the ...