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Common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) crawling at Buffalo Zoo, USA. Captivity.

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Why are there no flightless bats? We're closing in on an answer

A careful look at the few bats that can walk on the ground – including the common vampire bat – is helping us understand why evolution has yet to produce a flightless bat

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2R0BH12 The Fra Mauro map, ca 1450 by the Venetian cartographer Fra Mauro

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The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science

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15 mind-bending scientific riddles to enjoy solving with your family

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15 mind-bending scientific riddles to enjoy solving with your family

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Long covid: What we now know about its causes and possible treatments

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Long covid: What we now know about its causes and possible treatments

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Covid-19 vaccines should target only omicron for best immune response

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The pandemic helped some children develop their vocabulary

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Covid-19 rebound affects 1 in 5 people after taking Paxlovid

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CARDIFF, WALES - FEBRUARY 23: A teacher wearing a face mask teaches a child at Roath Park Primary School on February 23, 2021 in Cardiff, Wales. Children aged three to seven began a phased return to school on Monday. Wales' education minister Kirsty Williams has said more primary school children will be able to return to face-to-face learning from March 15 if coronavirus cases continue to fall. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

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HEPA filters cut covid-19 sick days but we've been slow proving this

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Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?

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A HEPA filter in a classroom at Bowling Park Primary School in Bradford, UK

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Schools cut covid-19 sick days by 20 per cent using HEPA air filters

Placing HEPA air filters into classrooms in the Bradford area of the UK reduced the number of covid-19-related absences among students by more than 20 per cent

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Is England doing enough to stop covid-19 spreading in hospitals?

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Has the risk of getting long covid been overestimated?

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Covid boosters: Why are US and UK vaccine policies so different?

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Covid-19 drug may be creating new variants with distinctive mutations

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