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After Virgin Orbit’s failed mission, Commons committee hears complaints about regulator Britain’s failed attempt to send satellites into orbit was a “disaster” and MPs are being urged to redirect funding to hospitals, with the country now seen as “toxi…
The 16th century pope responsible for what is today known as the Gregorian calendar now has another, celestial claim to fame.
UK researchers received little funding from EU programme because of Brexit trade deal negotiationsScientists in the UK have breathed a “sigh of relief” amid hopes that they will now benefit from the €100bn (£88.6bn) Horizon Europe programme after Rishi…
Scientists propose to develop a biological computer powered by millions of human brain cells that they say could outperform silicon-based machines while consuming far less energy. From a report: The international team, led by Johns Hopkins University i…
Existing UK fertility law should be updated to regulate modern treatments, says HFEAChildren born via sperm or egg donation would not need to wait until adulthood to find out more about their biological parents, under proposed changes to the law in the…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Shadows can do some adventurous, sometimes malignant, poetic things: They move, rebel, hide, refuse to be identified, vanish. All these visual aspects provide fertile ground for complex metaphors and narrations. Sha…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Heat pumps, in contrast, (to gas or oil furnaces) don’t generate heat. They transfer it. That allows them to achieve more than 300 percent efficiency in some cases. Because they are more efficient, using heat pumps …
UK falls from fourth to 10th place in phase III trials amid ‘ossified’ bureaucracy and stretched health serviceThe state of clinical trials in the NHS is “much worse than it has been in years” with patients losing access to cutting-edge cancer and deme…
National science agency warns of a ‘post-antibiotic world’ in 2050, marked by declines in lifespan, quality of life and livestock productionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBetter coordination is urgently needed …
Germany wants to set up a new power line network to connect its own offshore wind parks with those of its North Sea neighbors in order to eliminate bottlenecks in the European energy market.