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Matthew Whitaker has been playing jazz piano for crowds around the world since age 11 – and has been doing so completely blind. Whitaker was born with retinopathy of prematurity that led to his blindness, but the now 18-year-old has caught the attention of scientists who want to study the prodigy’s brain to understand how … Read more
The world’s first complete dinosaur skeleton – found 160 years ago – has finally been studied and its position on the Jurassic family tree confirmed. Researchers from the University of Cambridge spent the past three years preparing a detailed description and biological analysis of the skeleton of the Scelidosaurus. This completes the work started by … Read more
More than 1,200 studies looking at treatment and prevention of coronavirus are often too small to provide conclusive results and are focusing too much on one potential therapy, a new analysis reveals. Commissioned by STAT News, the report found that one in every six clinical trials studied the anti-malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine despite thin … Read more
Pollen DNA is being studied by British scientists in a bid to identify which grasses cause severe hay fever It is impossible to tell pollen from different plants apart without looking at DNA Scientists are hoping to use pollen DNA to find which pollen causes hay fever Analysing 40 species of grass, including cocksfoot, Timothy … Read more
Heir to the Belgian throne Princess Elisabeth, 18, will start at Brussels’ Royal Military Academy in September after returning home to complete the final year of her Welsh boarding school remotely due to COVID-19 Princess Elizabeth of Belgium, 18, will study at Royal Military Academy The heir to the Belgian throne had been studying at … Read more
Wuhan reports its first ‘imported case’: Chinese student, 16, who studies in the UK brings the coronavirus BACK to the former epicentre after flying home from Newcastle – despite showing NO symptoms The city last week declared that it had largely curbed the coronavirus outbreak Local health officials today reported the 16-year-old as its first … Read more
Moondust brought back to Earth by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 is being studied to see if it can be turned into WATER as well as fuel and bricks Open University experts are studying both authentic and simulated moon dust They are trying to use oxygen in moon dust to form water by adding hydrogen … Read more