The UCL scientist and ‘militant corona centrist’ on the risk of new variants, psychosomatic long Covid and when he expects the crisis to endCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageProf Francois Balloux is director of the University …
Researchers announce the smallest exoplanet discovered yet
A 3-planet system may expand out to 5, and one of its members is pretty small.
Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory
Germ theory denialist Facebook group went from 147 members in April 2020 to 18.4K now.
Republicans treated Covid like a bioweapon. Then it turned against them | Rebecca Solnit
Trump’s team reportedly believed that coronavirus would hurt Democratic states – and Democratic governors – worse. But the virus does not discriminateSome of the most powerful conservatives in the United States have, since the beginning of the Covid-19…
科学とスピリチュアリティで火星に生命を探す：NASAの地球生物学者にして聖職者パメラ・コンラッドに訊く
人類は火星で生命を見たときに、それを生命として認識できるのだろうか？── そう問うのはNASAの火星探査車パーサヴィアランスのミッションに参加する地球生物学者にして聖職者でもあるパメラ・コンラッドだ。科学的な手法と神学的な洞察を用いることは、火星における有機物、生命、あるいは「聖霊」の発見にいかにつながるのか？ 人類が築き上げた科学と宗教というふたつの世界を橋渡しする彼女へのインタヴュー。
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NSW has worst day of Covid pandemic with 319 new cases, five deaths and lockdown of Armidale
Deaths linked to latest coronavirus outbreak reaches 27 as four new cases recorded in NewcastleFollow the Australian coronavirus live blogAustralians living abroad fear being trapped if they return home to visit familyNSW; Vic; and Qld hotspotsNSW; Vic…
$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth
It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar arrays that beam the sun’s energy to the surface. Even the price tag seems gleaned from pop fiction: one hundred million dollars. But this is […]
Alok Sharma is trying to save the world. Should he be able to fly to do it?
Experts and campaigners defend UK minister in charge of Cop26 talks amid furore over diplomatic plane tripsThe starkest warning yet on how close the global climate is to the point of no return will be delivered to the world on Monday morning, when the …
Vaccine policies that are ineffective and unethical | Letters
Prof Peter Ayton and Prof Mark Doel on how offering incentives to persuade the reluctant to get vaccinated could backfire, and Isaac Ohringer on why teenagers like him shouldn’t be vaccinated while older people worldwide are still at riskYou report tha…
GOP congressman gets COVID-19 after suing Pelosi over mask rule
Rep. Ralph Norman is fully vaccinated and has only a mild infection.