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Professor Melvin Hoare wins Royal Astronomical Society award
Congratulations to Professor Melvin Hoare who has won the Royal Astronomical Society’s Education Award for Higher Education 2022.
The Astbury Conversation 25 -26 April 2022
The Astbury Conversation 2022 welcomes Nobel Prize winner Sir Professor Richard Henderson who will give the plenary public lecture ‘Zooming in on the molecules of life’.
Unintended consequences of mask mandates
Governments need to be careful about the messaging around compulsory mask wearing to ensure the policy is fully effective, say researchers.
Study reveals hostile conditions on Earth as life evolved
During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more inhospitable to life than scientists previously thought, according to new computer simulations.
Solving the Rubik's cube of medicinal chemistry
Dr Richard Foster likens his work to solving a Rubik’s Cube – albeit one that is a lot more complex than the well-known puzzle.