Reversing Systemic Bias Against Women Scientists in the Media

Addressing the bias against women quoted in popular science articles

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Will Cape Town Run Out of Water?

Cape Town is warning that taps will be turned off in July if rains don’t come soon

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Cold Winter, Warm Climate

A warming Arctic is causing extremely cold winters in North America and Western Europe

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Russia’s New Nuclear Age

How credible is Putin’s claim that Russia has developed a nuclear-powered cruise missile?

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Physicist Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018)

Celebrating Cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s work

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Can Science Save the Northern White Rhino?

IVF and stem cell treatments could help save the northern white rhino. Only two remain.

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The Rise of Novichok Agents

A history of chemical weapons and the rise of novichok agents

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Tracing the Novichok Trail

How scientists are tracing the novichok trail in the UK using “hotzone” forensics

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New Planet Hunting Mission

NASA's new planet hunting mission is about to launch

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Smelly Socks in Malaria Fight

Kenyan childrens’ socks give clues to mosquito biting

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Geothermal Activity and Earthquakes

Could a geothermal project have caused an earthquake in South Korea?

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The ‘Greatest Glasshouse’ in the World

Re-opening of Kew glasshouse provides a home for thousands of endangered plants.

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Origin of Deadly Amphibian Fungus Found

Traced to the Korean peninsula and spread by trade, over 700 species have been infected

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Human Activity Threatens Conservation

Human activity threatens conservation through roads, urbanisation and grazing

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New Pill To Monitor Your Gut

A new device has been developed to detect processes inside your gut in real-time

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The Dunes of Pluto

There are dunes on Pluto, but they are grains of frozen methane, not sand

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Selling Dinosaurs to Private Collectors

Does the science of palaeontology suffer when dinosaur fossils are sold privately?

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Antarctic Ice Melt and Sea Level Rise

The rate of sea level rise from melting ice sheets in Antarctica has trebled

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Hazard Mapping the Guatemalan Volcano

Understanding the risks and hazards of volcanic eruptions

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Japanese Space Mission Hayabusa 2 Reaches Asteroid

Japanese space mission Hayabusa 2 successfully reaches boulder strewn asteroid - Ryugu

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Bringing Back the Northern White Rhino

Scientists create hybrid embryos of extremely rare northern white rhino

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New Neutrino Source Found

Flaring blazar is a new astrophysical source of nature’s ghost particles

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Heatwaves and Droughts

How the current Northern hemisphere heatwaves and droughts link to global warming

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Water on Mars

Scientists have used radar technology to discover water beneath the surface of Mars

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Drought and the Mayans

Measuring the extent of the drought that contributed to collapse of Classic Maya Society

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Nasa's Solar Probe Launch

Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe hopes to ‘touch the Sun’ in 2025

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Weed-killer – ‘Roundup’, Science and the Law

US jury rules on herbicide, Roundup’s link to cancer, does the science agree?

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Fungal Threat to World’s Favourite Banana

The Cavendish banana is globally threatened by a fungal disease. Can genetics save it?

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Devastating Floods in Kerala

The monsoon dropped a month’s rain in just two days, causing extreme flooding in SW India

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The True Cost of the Brazil Museum Fire

The cost to science of the fire which destroyed Brazil’s National Museum

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