The second stage of the launch suffered an “anomaly”, meaning the rocket and its payload was lost. Virgin Orbit and the Government are working together to…
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Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw
In June, a vast new vertical farm opened on the outskirts of the English town Bedford. At a swanky opening event, members of the UK…
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Citizen scientists join fight to clean up rivers
The past year has seen public anger over pollution in rivers and waterways. According to the environmental charity Earthwatch, people are increasingly taking pollution monitoring…
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The government has been forced into a major policy U-turn
The government has been forced into a major policy U-turn, meaning that pupils throughout the UK will now have their grades awarded based on the…
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Almost 20 per cent of seabed in world’s oceans now mapped
Mapping the seabed of all of the world’s oceans in their entirety by 2030 sounds like a ludicrously big job – but that is the incredible task…
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Half of Earth’s ice-free land remains unaltered by humans and can still be protected with swift conservation measures, study shows
About half of Earth’s ice-free land remains unaltered by humans and can still be protected with swift conservation measures, a new study shows. US researchers compared…
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Cosmic Reef: Hubble Space Telescope releases a ‘breathtaking’ new image of a giant nebula ablaze with new stars being born to mark its 30th anniversary
To mark its 30th anniversary the Hubble Space Telescope team have released a stunning new image captured by the satellite showing a vast star-forming region.…
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The dog that knows the names and categories of its 100 toys
here’s something about a really smart dog that makes it seem as if there might be some hope. The world is in the midst of a frightening viral outbreak,…
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The UK’s coronavirus policy may sound scientific. It isn’t
When, along with applied systems scientist Dr Joe Norman, we first reacted to coronavirus on 25 January with the publication of an academic note urging…
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Call for isolated Britons to help digitise historical rainfall data
Weather is a perennial British obsession, with some of the country’s rainfall and temperature records going back centuries. Some of this data has been invaluable…
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