The state of the world’s farm soils has long been an issue of concern. As early as 2014, academics from the University of Sheffield concluded that Britain had only 100 harvests left in its agricultural soils. A similarly bleak picture was painted by Maria-Helena Semedo, a senior United Nations (UN)...
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Whether you think the UK is reopening too fast or too slowly, almost everyone agrees that antibody testing is critical to the next phase of our coronavirus existence. Serology tests could provide epidemiologists with vital data on how COVID-19 is spreading through a community, and also lead to the issuing...
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Sustainable nuclear fusion is the energy industry’s ‘boy who cried wolf’. It’s been just around the corner for so long that people can’t believe it’s just around the corner now. “As a physicist, we always joke that fusion has been 50 years away for 50 years,” said Daniel Kammen, a...
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Theo Wolf reports on new technology that is being used to track patients' blood glucose
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A molecule that protects plants from overexposure to harmful sunlight could form the basis for a new longer-lasting sunscreen, academics from the University of Warwick have found. The team of chemists, in collaboration with colleagues from Spain and France, discovered that the molecule in question was able to dispose ultraviolet...
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Theo Wolf reports on some of the more common hangover cures and explores whether there is any scientific truth to them.
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Theo Wolf reviews the BBC and Amazon's miniseries 'Good Omens' based on the novel of the same name. He particularly praises the performances of the two leads.
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Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landings, Theo Wolf reports on the Open University's partnership with Nasa on a mission to the lunar surface.
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Theo Wolf reports on a huge 'Star Trek' logo which was spotted on the surface of the Red Planet by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Theo Wolf reports on a baby T rex which has gone on sale on eBay, sparking paleontologists' outcry.
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Theo Wolf reports on the research which suggest we ditch the toast as it exposes us to more pollution than traffic.
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"Watching 'This Time with Alan Partridge', I often felt I’d never seen Coogan better or Partridge funnier." Theo Wolf reviews Alan Partridge's return to TV
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Theo Wolf interviews the founder of Coventry's Phil Silvers Archival Museum and discusses the work and legacy of this American comic hero
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