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The UK’s top scientists as well as a host of inventive entrepreneurs were honoured for their work helping the nation through the crisis.

The UK’s top scientists as well as a host of inventive entrepreneurs were honoured for their work helping the nation through the crisis.

© The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London The new mineral has been named kernowite, after the Cornish word for CornwallKnown from just a single location, a new species of mineral has been described from the UK. A sample of rock that was collected from a mine in Cornwall some 220 years ago has turned out to be an entirely new species of mineral. While most new minerals are so small that their colour isnt easy to appreciate, this latest addition forms large emerald-green crystals. Mi...

Dec 15 2020 Read 575 Times Particulate emissions from cooking stay in the atmosphere for longer than previously thought, making a prolonged contribution to poor air quality and human health, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Birmingham succeeded in demonstrating how cooking emissions – which account for up to 10 per cent of particulate pollution in the UK – are able to survive in the atmosphere over several days, rather than being broken up and dispersed. The team c...

Particulate emission from cooking stays longer in air than earlier thought This should be taken into account for city planning but should also look at ways air can be better filtered, especially in fast food industries. Dec 14, 2020 11:52:50 IST A new study now finds that particulate emissions emitting from cooking stoves stay in the atmosphere for a far longer time than what we had earlier thought. These cooking emissions, which is about 10 percent of particulate pollution in the UK, are able ...

By Katie Pavid First published 11 December 2020 A meteorite from the birth of the solar system could tell us more about how life flourished on Earth. The Maribo meteorite fell in Denmark in 2009. It is a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, which means it is as old as the solar system itself. These types of meteorites are made up of a complex mixture of dust from the birth of the solar system, organic matter, sulphides and metal. Scientists have taken a close look at the Maribo meteorite and disco...