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Wasps were ahead at half-time but capitulated after the break conceding five tries

Sam Baron, The Conv

In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe's ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality.

Jeff Tollefson, Nature

The United States has a new president, and is rolling out new plans for fighting climate change. Last month, President Joe Biden revealed a mammoth infrastructure proposal that would invest heavily in clean-energy technologies, electric vehicles and a modernized...

Leah Crane, NewScientist

Researchers have produced the lightest version of a uranium atom ever. It has only 122 neutrons compared with the 146 neutrons found in more than 99 per cent of the world's naturally occurring uranium, which is known as uranium-238.

Jazmin Murphy, Massive

In August of last year, two researchers, Fabio Machado and Pablo Teta, were publicly corrected by fellow scientists. They had made a mistake that started with a simple museum specimen mislabeling and snowballed into a consequential taxonomic mishap.

Katrina Kramer, C-World

‘A 7% drop - we've never seen this since world war two,' says Corinne Le Quéré, professor of climate change science at the University of East Anglia, UK. Le Quéré is talking about an unprecedented global decrease in carbon emissions in modern times, the result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sarah McCammon, NPR

Fetal tissue is uniquely valuable to medical researchers - useful for developing treatments and better understanding diseases like HIV, Parkinson's, and COVID-19.

Michelle Starr, Science Alert

Although it's extremely difficult to directly image the shadow of and the space around a black hole, that's not the only tool astronomers have in their kit.

Marshall & Hadfield, Time

While much has been made of the tense March 18 exchange between American and Chinese diplomats in Anchorage, Alaska, one area became an unlikely...

James Benford, Cent Dreams

Alien astronomy at our present technical level may have detected our biosphere many millions of years ago. The Great Oxidation Event occurred around 2.4 billion years ago; it was a rise in oxygen as a waste product due to organisms in the ocean carrying out photosynthesis.

Christopher Labos, Office for Sci and Society

In the early days of the pandemic, one of the big worries was the possibility that COVID-19 could survive and be spread by inanimate objects. This idea of fomite transmission led many to disinfect their groceries, put their mail in quarantine for three days before opening it, and worry excessively about touching any physical surface.

Jonny Thomson, RealClearScience

It's easy to judge someone else's worldview, but it's much harder to recognise that we even have a worldview. We appreciate how pagan societies might see spirits in nature, or how monotheists see God in things. We observe how Marxists see class struggle, and Freudians see childhood neuroses everywhere. But what about our own attitudes? What about our post-enlightenment scientific worldview? That's much harder to see.

Meilan Solly, Smithsonian

At its peak around the turn of the first millennium, Cahokia, a city in what is now Illinois, was home to as many as 20,000 people. Members of North America's Mississippian culture, Cahokia's residents constructed enormous...

Bernie Sanders was defiant Wednesday, saying his campaign did not encourage the chaos at Nevada's Democratic convention over the weekend; The creative mind behind one of the most popular television ad campaigns passed away last week.

IF ever a game summed up the good and bad of Newcastle United, this was it.

Arsenal v Fulham: the history in videos Watch the video highlights of six different Arsenal / Fulham games from recent years By Bulldog Drummond ...

Who are you cheering for?

CNN's Boris Sanchez looks back on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion -- a turning point in the fight against an oppressive Cuban communist dictatorship that some argue still carries an outsized impact on national elections in the United States 60 years later.

Bukayo Saka has become a leading light for Arsenal as he enjoys another impressive season with Mikel Arteta testing the youngster via positional tweaks

Is he a hero?

One candidate each died of COVID-19 in the three constituencies

Justice League SuperHero Race! Ultimate Showdown! In this epic superhero video with the fun squad on Kids Fun TV we are back with some of your favorite super heroes: The Flash, Wonder Woman, and SuperMan played by Skye!
These superheroes from the justice league team up to go on a super hero…

Patients on a ward at Walsall Manor Hospital are the first hospital inpatients to try jelly drops – a new initiative to boost hydration and nutrition among those who are struggling to eat and drink.