The redbrick offices, just north of Hamburg’s River Elbe and a few floors below Carlsberg’s German headquarters, are an unexpectedly low-key setting for a food…
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‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled
Doctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently…
View More ‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialledExotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in Cornwall
Some are small and jumpy; others are large and intimidating – if you’re a humble housefly. Exotic spiders are flourishing in Britain as international trade…
View More Exotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in CornwallNoise from traffic stunts growth of baby birds, study finds
Noise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, research has found. Unhatched birds and hatchlings that are exposed to…
View More Noise from traffic stunts growth of baby birds, study findsFrom birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast
As bird flu is confirmed in 33 cattle herds across eight US states, Ian Sample talks to virologist Dr Ed Hutchinson of Glasgow University about…
View More From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast‘An enigma’: scientists finally learn what giant prehistoric shark looked like
Fossil experts say they have gained unprecedented insights into a type of enormous prehistoric shark, after finding complete skeletons of the creatures. The specimens, discovered…
View More ‘An enigma’: scientists finally learn what giant prehistoric shark looked likeVoyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe
Earth’s most distant spacecraft, Voyager 1, has started communicating properly again with Nasa after engineers worked for months to remotely fix the 46-year-old probe. Nasa’s…
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Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust
Over the past three years, the plant-based meat industry has experienced a major reversal in vibes. Sales boomed in the early months of the pandemic,…
View More Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the BustPerception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows study
None of us are getting any younger, but it appears the age at which we are considered old has moved upwards over the generations. What’s…
View More Perception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows studyPhysicist Claudia de Rham: ‘Gravity connects everything, from a person to a planet’
Prof Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, developing and testing “new models and paradigms” at the intersection of gravity, cosmology…
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