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By Helen Briggs and Victoria Gill Correspondents for science and the environment, BBC News Image copyright Katharina M Miller Screenshot Sea ice is declining in the Arctic in both thickness and extent Polar bears will be phased out by the end of the century unless more is done to combat …

Phase 2 Randomized Controlled Trial of a Recombinant Adenovirus Type 5 Vector COVID-19 The vaccine (Ad5 vectorized COVID-19 vaccine) was carried out in China in April 2020 and involved more than 500 people. The main objective of the study was to assess the immune response and safety of the vaccine, …

Credit: Unsplash / CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from the Czech University of Life Sciences, Virginia Tech and Barry University have found evidence that suggests dogs can use Earth’s magnetic field as an aid to navigation. In her role in the eLife Sciences Initiative, the group describes their …

The ancient skeleton of a man thrown upside down into a ditch with his hands tied in front of him has been unearthed outside London. The man may have been the victim of an Iron Age murder or execution. Although archaeologists are not sure how the man died, their strange …

Figure 1. A snapshot of a model from the new job, showing the final stages of growth and coalescence of a new global fracture network. The fractures are in black / shadow, and the colors show stresses (the pink color denotes tensile stress, the blue color denotes compression stress). Credit: …