Prince Philip ‘Asked If Bearded Man Was Terrorist While Joking With Crowds’

The Duke of Edinburgh pointed out a bearded man and asked “is that a terrorist?” as he greeted crowds at Sandringham, it has been claimed.

The 96-year-old was attending St Magdalene Church on New Year’s Eve accompanied by the...

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Supermoon 2018: When is the first supermoon in the New Year? | Science | News

When is the January supermoon 2018?
Stargazers heading into the new year are expecting to see not one, but two spectacular supermoons in January.
The first of the two, and the largest of the year, will rise in the late evening hours on new Year’s Day – January 1. 
Unfortunately viewers in...

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Opinion: 11 Best Science Podcasts

ISTOCK, AZURE-DRAGONAs a science-obsessed kid, I didn’t realize how tedious research can be. Much of being a bench scientist involves mind-numbing tasks, only occasionally punctuated with moments of exciting discovery. Luckily, I’ve found a way to alleviate boredom and make this time feel...

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Lord Adonis Resigns With Scathing Letter Calling Theresa May The 'Voice Of UKIP'

Theresa May’s infrastructure tsar has quit, delivering a scathing verdict on the Prime Minister’s approach to Brexit.
Europhile Labour peer Lord Adonis resigned as chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, claiming May had become the “voice of Ukip” and the “extreme” right-wing of...

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New Year’s Day supermoon 2018: Where and what time will the moon be biggest? | Science | News

Astronomers are in for a celestial treat as the supermoon, the second of the so called ‘supermoon trilogy’, lights up the sky. 
The first in the trilogy was seen on December 3 and now stargazers are ready for the second event. 
And the supermoon on New Year’s Day will be the biggest and...

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2017 in Quotes | The Scientist Magazine®

Gender discrimination, Brexit, and climate change are among the issues that have received considerable attention from the scientific community this year.




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They have a patent on green tennis balls. We [likely] will have a patent on all tennis balls. . . . I don’t...

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Elon Musk's SpaceX to send Tesla car to Mars that will play David Bowie for ETERNITY | Science | News

The billionaire businessman, who also oversees the likes of electric car company Tesla and The Boring Company which makes underground tunnels to install high-speed lanes, took to social media to announce that he will send a Tesla car to Mars.
On December 1, Mr Musk announced on Twitter that...

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Top Technical Advances in 2017

Amping up CRISPR-Cas

CONBOY LAB AND MURTHY LABResearchers aren’t just finding new applications for this precise and relatively easy-to-use gene-editing technique, they’re also tweaking it to give it new powers. Among this year’s developments:

RNA editing: A research team led by Feng...

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'Strictly Come Dancing' Christmas Special 2017 Crowns Katie Derham Champion

Katie Derham has been crowned the surprise winner of the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Christmas special 2017. 
The former newsreader and BBC Radio 3 presenter lifted the Christmas Trophy after returning to the ballroom two years after she reached the final. 
...

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SpaceX launch pictures: Amazing photos show Falcon 9 rocket taking off | Science | News

Breathtaking photos show bright streaks of light in the sky, caused by the SpaceX rocket, which had launched from Vandenberg Air Base, northwest of Santa Barbara.
The brilliant glow could be seen as far away as San Diego and led many Americans to believe aliens were about to land. 
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Study Pinpoints Potential “Master Regulator” of Age-Related Cognitive Decline

A rat hippocampusWIKIMEDIA, BLACKNICKFor more than three decades, Philip Landfield has been chipping away at a central question, namely, “why the electrophysiology of hippocampal connections is impaired in aged animals,” as the University of Kentucky neuroscientist puts it. It’s far from...

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Gogglebox’s Leon Bernicoff Dies, Aged 83

Leon Bernicoff, who found fame alongside his wife June on ‘Gogglebox’, has died at the age 83.

The sad news was announced on the programme’s Twitter account, with Channel 4 later stating that Leon died in hospital after a short...

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NASA astronaut who was first to fly untethered in Space dies aged 80 | Science | News

Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless died in California on Thursday, the agency’s Johnson Space Centre has announced.
No cause of death was given.
Mr McCandless became the first astronaut to fly untethered in space while strapped into NASA’s Manned Manoeuvring Unit (MMU).
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Hibernating Rodents Feel Less Cold

Thirteen-lined ground squirrelCOURTESY OF THE GRACHEVA LABFor animals to hibernate, they must somehow avoid typical responses to cold temperatures, such as shivering and moving to warm up. According to a study published today (December 19) in Cell Reports, two hibernating mammals, Syrian...

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70% Do Not Produce Cheapest Fares

More than two-thirds of ticket machines on Britain’s railways do not inform passengers how to get the cheapest fares, the Department for Transport (DfT) has said.

A joint action plan launched in December last year by the...

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SHOCK CLAIM: Robots will have babies with humans in 100 years | Science | News

David Levy, author of the New York Times best seller Love and Sex With Robots, believes it is an “odds on cert” that man and machine will be producing offspring within a century given “recent progress in stem cell research and artificial chromosomes.”
Dr Levy points to research from Ohio...

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CRISPR Helps Mice Hear | The Scientist Magazine®

ISTOCK, ALUXUMPeople and mice with a certain dominant mutation in Tmc1—a gene required for normal function of the hair cells that sense sound waves in the inner ear—experience progressive hearing loss. In a study published today (December 20) in Nature, researchers have reduced this...

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Arthur Collins Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison Over Acid Attack In London Nightclub

Arthur Collins, the ex-boyfriend of reality TV-star Ferne McCann, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail over an acid attack in a London nightclub that injured 22 people. 

The 25-year-old threw the corrosive substance at a crowd in...

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Ursid Meteor Shower 2017: When is it? Where can you see it? | Science | News

Stargazers can expect to see an intense burst of shooting stars known as Ursid meteors at 2.29am EST time in the skies, according to NASA.
The best time to view the Ursids are between midnight and before dawn.
What is the Ursid meteor shower?
The spectacular event, caused by dust particles...

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Top 10 Retractions of 2017

UNSPLASH, GARY CHANWhen it comes to retractions, we at Retraction Watch always have a lot to say. Especially after spending much of 2017 building our retraction database, which now holds just shy of 16,000 entries—more than 1,000 from 2017 alone. That’s an increase from the 650 total...

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UK Embassy Worker Found 'Murdered At Side Of Motorway' In Lebanon

A British embassy worker whose body was found by the side of a motorway in Lebanon was strangled, Lebanese police said.
Rebecca Dykes’s family said they have been left “devastated” following her death on Saturday in Beirut.
...

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Could NASA probe Voyager 1 be the last? World running out of plutonium to power spacecraft | Science | News

Plutonium-238 is the essential radioactive isotope powering the planet’s spacecraft from the two Voyager craft, the Mars Rover, the Pioneer spacecraft and more recently the Cassini Saturn probe, New Horizons Pluto launch.
But the world has almost run out with one official suggesting there is...

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2017’s Science News in Review

Peggy Mikros, a caterer, at the March for Science in ChicagoKERRY GRENSThe past 12 months have seen no shortage of science scandals, policy upheaval, and publishing turmoil (so we gave them their own dedicated end-of-year summaries). Yet the show of solidarity within the scientific...

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Martyn Hett Tribute Revealed On What Would Have Been Manchester Bombing Victim's 30th Birthday

The brother of Manchester Area attack victim Martyn Hett has revealed a tribute to him that says “Be more Martyn”, on what would have been his 30th birthday.
He was one of 22 people killed in the May 22 bombing and was a social media star known for his obsession with Coronation Street, his...

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Great Pyramid of Giza: Scientists set to uncover 4,500-year-old mystery using ROBOTS | Science | News

Using an imaging method and a robot based on cosmic rays scientists hope to uncover the mysteries of the pyramid. 
Scientists have built the probe that will enter the 3.5cm keyhole in a wall after a large and enigmatic internal structure was detected in the last of the Seven Wonders of the...

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New Resource Probe Miner Ranks Chemical Probes for Human Proteins

ISTOCK, SHUNYUFANChemical probes—small molecules used to manipulate protein function—are often not as selective or effective as the researchers using them might hope. Now, a resource called Probe Miner aims to give scientists a heads up if their choice is no good, and offer better options....

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Defeat On The EU Withdrawal Bill Is Embarrassing But Not Fatal For Theresa May

On Monday, Theresa May seemed to have achieved the impossible and united both Brexit wings of her party behind her Brussels deal.

Two days later, and that divisions are once again plain for all to see.
Despite assurances from David...

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Geminids 2017: What time is the meteor shower in YOUR area? | Science | News

The Geminids have been known to produce more than 100 meteors an hour during their peak and stargazers are expecting a dazzling show.
The stunning display of meteors will break out over Earth in the late night hours between Wednesday December 13 and Thursday December 14.
But in the event...

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Can Young Stem Cells Make Older People Stronger?

ISTOCK, SANJAGRUJICCan one grow old without growing frail? One company is banking on the idea that with the right treatment, the answer can be ‘yes’ for many more people. In clinical trials published in October in the Journals of Gerontology, Longeveron, the firm developing the therapy,...

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Grenfell Disaster Lawyer Warns Of 'Injustice' If Inquiry Fails Diversity 'Smell Test'

A lawyer representing survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire has questioned whether justice will be delivered if the public inquiry into the tragedy fails to pass a diversity “smell test”.
On the opening day of the investigation, barrister Leslie Thomas raised fresh concerns that the inquiry’s...

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Alien BREAKTHROUGH? NASA to hold press conference to reveal latest discovery | Science | News

The space agency will hold a press conference on Thursday to reveal its latest major discovery after searching outside of our solar system for life by scanning habitable planets.
The new discovery comes from the team at the Kepler space telescope, who have been searching for extraterrestrial...

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Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement

ISTOCK, VIPERFZKIn recent years, a number of investigations revealed that clinical reporting practices failed to meet ethical and legal standards in both academia and industry. But an analysis published today (December 5) in BMJ Open suggests that some reporting practices have improved—at...

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Starving Polar Bear Captured On Camera In Heartbreaking Footage

Heartbreaking footage has emerged of an emaciated polar bear in Canada’s Arctic.
The video, captured by conservation group Sea Legacy on Baffin Island, was shared by photographer Paul Nicklen.
The animal can be seen struggling to walk and foraging in vain in a metal drum for food.
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Scientists close to developing nuclear fusion STAR with same energy as SUN to power homes | Science | News

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is trying to secure a £1billion contract to develop technology for use in the first nuclear fusion power plants.
Nuclear fusion is a limitless, safe energy sources from plentiful materials from seawaterand the Earth’s crust.
The UKAEA has received...

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Thousands of Mutations Accumulate in the Human Brain Over a Lifetime

 

ISTOCK, JEZPERKLAUZENTwo studies in Science today (December 7)—one that focuses on prenatal development in humans, the other on infancy to old age—provide insights into the extent of DNA sequence errors that the average human brain cell accumulates over a lifetime. Together, they...

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'I'm Not A Centrist Dad', Ed Miliband Tells HuffPostUK's Commons People Podcast

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Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn.


Ed Miliband has declared he’s “not a Centrist Dad” and praised Jeremy Corbyn for mobilising young voters and...

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Bronze Age weapons had ALIEN origin, astonishing study finds | Science | News

Iron-based weapons from the Bronze Age have a high metallic content that comes from outer space, researchers have confirmed.
Previous studies have indicated that weapons in the past were made from meteoric metal. Last year it was claimed that King Tutankhamun’s dagger was forged from...

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The Biggest DNA Origami Structures Yet

Conceptual animation of a fractal assembly process for creating the Mona Lisa out of DNA.CALTECHDNA is a powerful building medium because its sequences can be designed to allow for precise control of self-assembly. In one fabrication technique—known as DNA origami—a single, long scaffold...

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Outrage At A Boy In A Dress Belies A Deeper Problem; And I Know Because I Was One

We live in a current climate of outrage, where everyone reserves the right to be offended by whatever they choose. Then those that have committed the offence then turn the tables claiming autocracy and the death of freedom of speech. People cry ‘witch’ as much as they cry ‘witch hunt’, like...

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Live forever: First person to live to 1,000 has already been born, claims top scientist | Science | News

Dr Aubrey de Grey believes people who have already been born could live for ten centuries because of ongoing research into extending the human lifespan.
British-born Mr de Grey, who graduated from Cambridge University in 1985, is the co-founder nd chief science officer of Strategies for...

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Antiviral Immunotherapy Comes of Age

ISTOCK, BIOGEEKImmunotherapy, which involves adapting immune cells to destroy specific cellular targets, has made a name for itself treating cancer. But over the last few years, a handful of research groups have advanced T-cell therapies for viral infections, and are now on the cusp of...

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Supermoon 2017: How to watch the supermoon online this weekend | Science | News

The December full moon will slowly peek out over the horizon on Sunday December 3, for the first and last supermoon event of 2017.
During this rare spectacular event the moon could swell up to 14-times in size and shine 30-times brighter, according to NASA.
The supermoon will begin to rise...

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The Scientist’s 2017 Gift Guide

‘Tis the season to be sciencey.




ISTOCK, MEJNAKClimate change mug

Know someone who’d enjoy contemplating the consequences of climate change over a cup of tea? This is the mug for him. As it warms up, sea levels rise on a map of the world, swallowing coastal cities and landmasses such...

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Theorists identify stable tetraquark - physicsworld.com

Heavy duty: are some tetraquarks long lived?
Two independent groups of theorists have shown for the first time that exotic particles made up of four quarks can exist for extended periods of time. Using different approaches, the researchers predict the existence of a stable “tetraquark”...

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If Brexit Offer Is Unacceptable To Ireland, It's Unacceptable To Us

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has received the full backing of his European counterparts as he warned he was prepared to stand firm on the Brexit Irish border issue.

European Council president Donald Tusk said if the UK’s offer was...

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