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A negative result from a medical test means you definitely don’t have the condition, right? Wrong: it depends on the false negative rate of the test and on your individual risk.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
The rush to find treatments for COVID-19 led to a badly flawed clinical trial influencing medical treatment worldwide. What went wrong?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
A study of 200 million-year-old teeth from the earliest mammals provides fascinating insight into how they lived.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Fusion and fission: both release energy, but how do these processes differ and what are the implications for electricity generation?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Ever wondered what the weather is like on planets outside our solar system? Scientists have recently discovered an exoplanet where it rains iron!
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How have scientists been working to tackle COVID-19 during the pandemic? This interview from European XFEL gives some interesting insight.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Beyond the five senses: Some bacteria can sense magnetic fields. Learn how they do this and how this could help us design nanorobots.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How do discoveries happen in science? Despite popular stories of ‘eureka moments’, the reality is usually much more complex.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
As scientists worldwide try to understand and help tackle the coronavirus pandemic, we take a brief look at what is currently known about this new virus.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
As space missions venture to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn – and beyond – to look for the conditions for life, what alien life forms might be found in such exotic environments?
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
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How to understand a COVID-19 test result
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
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Clinical trials count on more than statistics
Topics: General science
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Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles
Topics: Biology
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Fusion vs fission
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
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ESO telescope observes exoplanet where it rains iron
Topics: Astronomy / space
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Pulling together: a collaborative research approach to study COVID-19
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
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Insights into magnetic bacteria may guide research into medical nanorobots
Topics: Physics, Biology, Engineering
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Discovery and controversy: stories from the chemical elements
Topics: Chemistry, General science
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Coronavirus: the science in brief
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
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Alien life and where to find it
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy / space
