All articles by Anthony King
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ResearchMoths draped in stealth acoustic cloak evade bat sonar
Two species have wing scales covered in a complex metamaterial
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Business
Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine joins others with promising interim data
Cheap and fridge-stable candidate at least 60% and up to 90% effective at preventing disease
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Business
Regulatory panel unconvinced by Alzheimer’s antibody evidence
US FDA advisors vote against approving Biogen’s aducanumab on the basis of incomplete data analysis
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Business
Moderna and Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines add more encouraging data
Pfizer–BioNTech reach safety threshold for emergency authorisation, while Moderna’s data peek suggests 95% efficacy
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Business
Early indications suggest Pfizer–BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is effective
Company claims 90% efficacy at preventing disease, but experts call for data rather than press releases
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News
Millions of microplastic particles released by some baby feeding bottles
Hot water is key variable responsible for release of large numbers of plastic particles
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News
First Covid-19 challenge study working with live virus planned for the UK
Pending ethics panel approval, healthy volunteers would be infected with Sars-CoV-2 to help understand disease and test vaccines
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Business
Protein-based Covid-19 vaccines could overshadow rivals
Although slower to develop, protein-based vaccines are well understood with a strong record of safety and effectiveness
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Rush to approve Covid vaccine prompted by politics may end in disaster
Push by governments to pass a vaccine without appropriate evidence could damage fight against virus
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Business
Russian Covid-19 vaccine data raises questions
Suspected data manipulation or fabrication casts shadows over safety trial report for hastily-approved Sputnik V
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Business
Russian vaccine launch shocks scientists
Sputnik V to be approved without large human trial data
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Business
Encouraging signs from initial Covid-19 vaccine trials
Human trials deliver positive immune responses, while primate challenge studies suggest protection is possible
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News
Horizon Europe budget cut prompts backlash from ERC’s scientific council
Proposed reduction attacked as ‘retrograde step’
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Hand-powered centrifuge setup can diagnose Covid-19 for just a dollar a test
$5 centrifuge based on children’s toy part of raft of cheap technologies that can detect the virus in saliva in remote locations
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Explainer: how is the vaccine pipeline for Covid-19 looking?
The race to develop a vaccine is almost six months old. Who’s in the lead?
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Business
Oil price crash ripples through chemicals production
Fuel production slowdown will favour more flexible refiners as demand for petrochemicals is stable or increasing
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News
Science steps up a gear as struggle to both understand and fight coronavirus intensifies
Research that might have taken years is being turned around in months as journals fast-track Covid-19 manuscripts
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Research
Structural studies offer glimpse of how coronavirus initiates human cell invasion
Researchers studying virus receptor-binding domains suggest virus could have passed directly from bats to humans
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Research
Potent coronavirus drug candidate designed using 3D structure of key viral enzyme
Inhibitor of Sars-CoV-2 protease shows promise in early animal tests
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Business
RNA vaccines are coronavirus frontrunners
Several groups have potential Sars-CoV-2 vaccines ready or close to testing, thanks to rapid development pathways
