Medical research charities report £260 million shortfall due to pandemic

Medical research spending by UK charities has fallen by £260 million since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The shortfall is a result of severe disruption to charities’ fundraising efforts caused by the pandemic. The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) reports that its members annual investment in research dropped almost 30% from £920 million […]

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Medical research charities report £260 million shortfall due to pandemic

Medical research spending by UK charities has fallen by £260 million since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The shortfall is a result of severe disruption to charities’ fundraising efforts caused by the pandemic. The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) reports that its members annual investment in research dropped almost 30% from £920 million […]

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Deadly explosion and fire at petrochemical plant in China

An explosion and fire has killed one person and injured at least one other at an ethylene glycol plant operated by state-owned Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical in China. The explosion, early in the morning of 18 June, killed the driver of a transport vehicle and injured one other employee. The ensuing fire apparently spread across three […]

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Astrology, data, and statistics

Is western astrology a big data science, or even the very first big data science? Data scientist Alexander Boxer thinks it is and has written a book to back up his claim, A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and The Search for Our Destiny in Data.[1]  His justification for having written this book is interesting: […]

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Switching protocol doubles carbon capture capacity of supercapacitors

Researchers have developed a method that doubles the amount of carbon dioxide that can be captured with a supercapacitor.1 The devices made from coconut shell-derived porous carbon, capture CO­2 as they charge, which can then be controllably released when discharging the capacitors for collection and storage. By altering the voltage applied to the supercapacitor device […]

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