As part of the Vesuvius Challenge, computer scientists have used machine learning to successfully reveal 2,000 characters from the Herculaneum scrolls. These artefacts were charred to a crisp following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Papyrologist Federica Nicolardi has been translating the writings, and tells us what exactly has been deciphered.
Following this week’s launch of NASA’s PACE satellite, NASA scientist Dr Susanne Craig tells us how the mission will be giving our planet a health check.
Bird flu is still an issue. This month, scientists have reported that hundreds of penguin chicks have died from the virus in the Falklands. Meanwhile, in Argentina, avian flu has killed huge numbers of elephant seal pups. Professor Wendy Barclay, a virologist from Imperial College London, tells us more about the virus and how it can jump between species.
Sunday 11th February is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Physicist Dr Jess Wade, who has written hundreds of Wikipedia biographies of women and underrepresented scientists, reveals one of her favourite scientists that people haven’t heard of.
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COVID in families; earthquake under Aegean Sea; Camilla Pang wins science book prize
A new saliva gland, Bill Bryson on the Human Body, and the return of the Dust Bowl
COVID reinfections, Susannah Cahalan questions psychiatry and sense of smell and COVID
Test and trace - how the UK compares to the rest of the world; Linda Scott's book The Double X Economy
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Brian May's Cosmic Clouds 3-D; How fish move between waterbodies and Jim Al-Khalili's take on physics
Royal Society Science Book Prize - Gaia Vince; Biodiversity loss and Science Museum mystery object
COVID-19 in Winter, Acoustics of Stonehenge and Dog years
Coronavirus: The types of vaccine; How the UK is scaling up vaccine production
Bird and dinosaur skull evolution; the wonders of yeast and Science Museum mystery object
What does the science say about the COVID risks of schools reopening? Dolphin ear autopsy
Smart bricks, The Royal Academy of Engineering awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting SARS-Cov-2 in sewage
Land use and zoonoses, California's earthquake risk and the Tuatara genome
How sperm swim, the theory of soil & the Big Compost Experiment update
Science Museum mystery objects; home security camera security and Rosalind Franklin at 100
Pre-prints over peer review during the COVID pandemic and roads and birds
Science Fraud & Bias, Immunity to COVID-19
Satellite navigation in the UK; the science of the World Wide Web and Neolithic genomics
Preventing pandemics, invading alien species, blood types & COVID-19.
The Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary
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