What's the difference between mutations, variants and strains? A guide to COVID terminology
Feb 12, 2021 07:57 am UTC| Science
Living through a global pandemic over the past year has seen all of us expanding our vocabularies. We now understand terms like PPE, social distancing and contact tracing. But just when perhaps we thought we had a...
Feb 08, 2021 13:41 pm UTC| Science
A century ago, an upstart German physicist by the name of Albert Einstein turned the scientific world on its head with his discovery of the photoelectric effect, which proved light to be both a particle and a wave. Awarded...
Feb 02, 2021 13:12 pm UTC| Science
The day a muddled mob stormed the US Capitol building, a team of American researchers published a paper in Nature that signified a landmark in gene therapy. The head of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis...
In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized
Jan 14, 2021 06:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
COVID-19 has not only upended our personal lives, it has dramatically changed scientific research. In response to the rapid spread of the virus, scientists around the world have had to find new ways to collaborate and...
The Oxford vaccine has unique advantages, as does Pfizer's. Using both is Australia's best strategy
Jan 14, 2021 06:28 am UTC| Science
On Sunday, federal Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly said most Australians will be offered a vaccine from Oxford-AstraZeneca. Australia currently has agreements in place to receive 53.8 million doses of the...
Oxford scientists: how we developed our COVID-19 vaccine in record time
Jan 14, 2021 06:27 am UTC| Science
The pandemic is only a year old, but we already have multiple vaccines available to fight COVID-19 including the vaccine developed by the team were part of at the University of Oxford. With our partner AstraZeneca, we...
What is a protein? A biologist explains
Jan 14, 2021 04:58 am UTC| Science
Editors note: Nathan Ahlgren is a professor of biology at Clark University. In this interview, he explains exactly what proteins are, how they are made, and the wide variety of functions they perform in the human...
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Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
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