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Hughes Prize Shortlisting

Source: British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)   The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) has unveiled the shortlist for its Hughes Prize. Six exceptional books will now be...

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Emissions from new cars reach record low in the UK

Source: The Verge   Electric and hybrid vehicles drove emissions from new cars in the UK down to a record low in 2021, according to new data from a local industry group. But more investments in...

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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

By Michael Strevens Liveright, 2020   During the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution, a small handful of radical thinkers, among them Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, hit upon a way of...

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Google Hit With $1.7 Billion in Europe for Abusing Advertising Dominance

Source: GizmodoEuropean regulators fined Google €1.49 billion (or $1.7 billion) on Wednesday for abusing its dominance in the online advertising business by imposing restrictive and anticompetitive...

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Falklands caught in the post Brexit Galileo space controversy

Souce: MercoPressUnited Kingdom ministers are unilaterally considering stopping EU access to the Galileo satellite earth station in the Falklands and Ascension, according to reports in the UK press....

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Science mourns Stephen Hawking’s death

Source: NatureStephen Hawking, one of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century and perhaps the most celebrated icon of contemporary science, has died at the age of 76.The University of...

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Muere el físico Stephen Hawking a los 76 años

Fuente: El PaisEl físico británico Stephen Hawking, el científico que explicó el universo desde una silla de ruedas y acercó las estrellas a millones de personas alrededor del mundo, ha fallecido esta...

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Hungary rewards highly cited scientists with bonus grants

Source: NatureEarlier this year, cell biologist Attila Reményi was facing his toughest decision since returning to his native Hungary a decade ago. With his generous start-up funding about to run out,...

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Obituary: Angela M. Hartley Brodie (1934–2017)

Source: NatureAngela Brodie was a giant in the world of breast-cancer therapy. She discovered and developed the first selective aromatase inhibitor — a drug that blocks the synthesis of oestrogen,...

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World’s First All-Electric VTOL Jet Tested – Are Flying Cars Here?

Source: ColdFusion...

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