Scientists have developed a green way to create chitin, by using two forms of food waste - prawn shells and discarded fruit - and fermenting them.

A llama called Winter could prove useful in the hunt for a treatment for COVID-19, according to U.S. and Belgian scientists who have identified a tiny particle that appears to block the new coronavirus.

An international team of scientists said two massive stars could have merged before exploding to create the "the most light we have ever seen emitted by a supernova".

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Up to 30 new marine species discovered on research expedition into underwater canyons

A team of scientists are due to start clinical trials towards the end of next week

The number of deaths from coronavirus in England and Wales reached the peak almost two weeks ago, leading scientists have said.

The success of the Government's shutdown measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 may hamper the process of gathering data to develop a vaccine, a scientist leading clinical trials has said.

The Government has reportedly ordered 50 million tests which can show if a person has had coronavirus.

Social gatherings could be limited to 10 people until 2021 to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infections in the UK, scientists have warned.

UK scientists have started testing an experimental Covid-19 drug which they hope will significantly improve the health of coronavirus patients.

UK scientists have developed a new coronavirus antibody test which they say produces results in 35 minutes with 99.8 per cent accuracy.

Boris Johnson's top scientist has defended the Government's battleplan against Covid-19 and said "you can't stop it".

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Zoo otters juggle stones when they are hungry because they may be excited about food, scientists believe.

The Trump administration failed to prepare for the onslaught of coronavirus, then sought a quick fix by trying to rush an unproven drug to patients, a senior government scientist has alleged in a whistleblower complaint.

There is no evidence that Covid-19 has mutated into multiple strains, new analysis shows.

Obese people with coronavirus are more at risk of dying, one of the UK's leading scientists has said.

YouTube, Facebook crack down on two viral videos for spreading medical misinformation.

One month after the debut of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, or CORD-19, the database of coronavirus-related research papers has doubled in size – and has given rise to more than a dozen software tools to channel the hundreds of studies that are being published every day about the pandemic. In a roundup published on the ArXiv preprint server this week, researchers from Seattle's Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Research and other partners in the project say CORD-19's collection has risen from about 28,000 papers to more than 52,000. Every day, several hundred more papers are being published, in… Read More

The North Magnetic Pole has been racing across the top of the world, from Canada towards Siberia.

The Hawaii-based Gemini telescope produces a super-sharp picture of the gas giant in the infrared.

Friends and colleagues pay tribute to gifted polymath whose achievements spanned biology, physics and public policy

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Pioneering Australian scientist Robert May, whose work in biology led to the development of chaos theory, has died at age 84.

Known as one of Australia’s most accomplished scientists, he served as the chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom, was president of the Royal Society, and was made a lord in 2001.

Exclusive: report criticising government lockdown proposals heavily redacted before release

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Government scientific advisers are furious at what they see as an attempt to censor their advice on government proposals during the Covid-19 lockdown by heavily redacting an official report before it was released to the public, the Guardian can reveal.

The report was one of a series of documents published by the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) this week to mollify growing criticism about the lack of transparency over the advice given to ministers responding to the coronavirus.

Letter seeks to dispel view that Prof Neil Ferguson was single architect of lockdown idea

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A group of leading UK scientists have insisted that the scientific basis for the coronavirus lockdown is the work of a large group of experts, and that epidemiologist Prof Neil Ferguson is just one voice among many.

In a letter co-ordinated by Dr Thibaut Jombart, an associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, more than 25 prominent scientists said debates after Ferguson’s “individual error” – in which he flouted lockdown rules by receiving visits at home from his lover – had amplified a misconception that he alone persuaded the government to change policy.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) put off its regular $275-million competition this spring to focus on delivering federal grants related to the novel coronavirus.

'It seems - like humans - flamingos form social bonds for a variety of reasons,' researcher says

Other researchers have rejected the findings and say dog owners do not need to be concerned

Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could help us understand the origin of our universe, they say.

'This is the first time we've ever looked inside a comet from outside our solar system, and it is dramatically different from most other comets we've seen before'

Uncooked pet food could be source of pathogens dangerous to humans, research suggests

JK Rowling's character Salazar Slytherin was partly known for his ability to talk to snakes

A set of asteroids that came from outside our solar system have been hiding in plain sight, according to scientists.

'This type of natural manipulation in ecosystems ... has barely been researched to date, but holds tremendous potential,' says researcher

Our star could be in a unusually inactive phase compared to its galactic counterparts, new study shows

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'Reinvention' of ceramics firing process could be used by artificial intelligence to create new materials with wide range of possible applications

Enigmatic marsupial has previously been thought to absorb almost all its moisture from eating leaves

Researchers suggest unusual rapid shift is due to competing patches of magnetic field

Pictures are some of the sharpest infrared images of Jupiter ever taken from the Earth

Rick Bright, a top scientist working on a vaccine, says he was reassigned for not focusing on treatments favored by President Trump, even though they lacked "scientific merit."

WHO expert Peter Ben Embarek says the virus originated in bats, and that it's unclear what animal may have transmitted the disease to humans

People at risk of COVID-19 infection need to be alerted within 24 hours or contact tracing will be useless, a scientist advising the government has warned.

Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Stuttgart, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Russian Quantum Center achieved the first systematic experimental measurements of the electrical conductivity of pure interfacial water, hence producing new results significantly extending our knowledge of interfacial water.

Physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) have invented a new radar prototype that utilizes quantum entanglement as a method of object detection. This successful integration of quantum mechanics into our everyday devices could significantly impact the biomedical and security industries. The research is published in the journal Science Advances.

New machine learning methods bring insights into how lithium ion batteries degrade, and show it's more complicated than many thought.

ITMO University researchers together with their colleagues from France and the USA have demonstrated how a femtosecond laser can be used to tune the structure and nanocomposite properties for titanium dioxide films filled with gold nanoparticles.

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a green way to create chitin, by using two forms of food waste - prawn shells and discarded fruit - and fermenting them.