How COVID Changed the World
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Best Night Vision Binoculars 2022
How do you learn to read in the dark? You go to night school. How do you find out which are the best night vision binoculars? Keep reading! Shopping for night vision binoculars can be a real challenge, with so many options available (and many from less known brands). It is a market in continual … Read more
First Gene Therapy for Tay-Sachs Disease Successfully Given to Two Children
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development. Tay-Sachs is a severe neurological disease caused by a deficiency in an enzyme called HexA. This enzyme breaks down a fatlike substance that normally … Read more
Incredibly rare stellar merger may have created strange stars
Two particularly strange stars may have formed in a lucky collision, according to new research. What makes these two stars unusual is the high levels of carbon and oxygen at the surface of their atmospheres. Those elements are left behind as a star burns its helium, but that process takes place in the star’s core … Read more
Identify local wildlife and aid research with the iNaturalist app
Capture photos of wild plants and animals, identify species you come across and contribute to biodiversity and conservation research, suggests Layal Liverpool Life 9 February 2022 By Layal Liverpool Shutterstock/Wut_Moppie ONE of my New Year’s resolutions was to spend more time outdoors, in nature. Inevitably, there are apps for that, and the one I decided … Read more
Save £30 on the Lego Millennium Falcon on Amazon
The cost of living may be on the rise, but that doesn’t mean the price of a great Lego Star Wars set is too. You can now save a galactic £30 on a 1,351-piece Millennium Falcon set on Amazon. We’re huge fans of the Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon set which features on our best … Read more
It is possible to remake our economy so we use less and waste less
It is time to do away with buying new products and binning them at the end of their lives and instead create a circular economy in which old goods can be reused, recycled, or can restore the environment
How big is Jupiter? | Space
It is the largest planet in the solar system, but just how big is Jupiter? The gas giant is approximately 318 times as massive as Earth, according to planetary scientist Alan Boss. If the mass of all of the other planets in the solar system were combined into one “super planet,” Jupiter would still be … Read more
Covid-19 news: Northern Ireland lifts remaining legal restrictions
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal Liverpool, Carissa Wong and Alex Wilkins Northern Ireland health minister Robin Swann speaks at a press conference, 7 February, 2022 PA Images / Alamy Latest coronavirus news as of 11am on 15 February Remaining measures … Read more
Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s doodle-filled blackboard may finally be solved
Hawking’s blackboard is filled with doodles, in-jokes and half-finished equations scrawled by friends and fellow physicists in 1980. (Image credit: Isidora Bojovic/Science Museum Group) A new museum exhibit hopes to uncover the secrets behind the doodles, in-jokes and coded messages on a blackboard that legendary physicist Stephen Hawking kept untouched for more than 35 years. … Read more