Category: SCIENCE

Scientists have started steering lightning with lasers – here’s how

How they did it   Lightning may look beautiful but every year it kills thousands of people, does huge amounts of damage to buildings and infrastructure, and causes power outages. The only protection we have is lightning rods, …

Long before Silicon Valley, scholars in ancient Iraq created an intellectual hub that revolutionised science

Automata with talent Brilliant polymaths Gone without a trace Lessons for today   Time and again, collaboration has proven to be a key driver of scientific and technological innovation. So it follows that some of the greatest advances …

Bivalent COVID vaccines have now been in use for a few months – here’s how they’re stacking up against omicron

mRNA vaccines: an update So how well are they working? What does the future hold?   Vaccines have played a major role in mitigating the harms of the COVID pandemic since their rollout began just over two years …

Metal Recycling Market – Industry Research Report for Risk Strategies | Risk Analysis by The Brainy Insights

  The report on Global Metal Recycling Market 2023-30 is a systematic compilation, lending in crucial understanding and insights touching upon various parameters of the market such as market share, segment analysis, geographical distribution as well as vendor …

Could ‘Peer Community In’ be the revolution in scientific publishing we’ve all been waiting for?

Birth of an idea By science communities for science communities A revolution unfolding in science publishing New ground broken in 2021 An innovative model on the rise   In 2017, three researchers from the National Research Institute for …

10 times this year the Webb telescope blew us away with new images of our stunning universe

1. Mirror alignment complete 2. Spitzer vs MIRI 3. The first galaxy cluster image 4. Stephan’s Quintet 5. The Pillars of Creation 6. The ‘Hourglass’ Protostar 7. Jupiter in infrared 8. The Phantom Galaxy 9. A super-distant galaxy …

COVID in 2023 and beyond – why virus trends are more difficult to predict three years on

Why COVID projections have become harder The pandemic is not over Beyond 2023 – the next pandemic   In 2020, we knew very little about the novel virus that was to become known as COVID-19. Now, as we …