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3 articles from Guardian Unlimited Science

Spacewatch: you wait ages for a rocket launch then ...

... Europe, China, India and Russia all send payloads into space in a weekIt’s been a busy week for rocket launches. Europe, China, India and Russia have all sent payloads into space in the last seven days. Starting on 23 November, China launched two navigation satellites as part of their growing BeiDou navigation satellite constellation. Continue...

Polio outbreaks in Africa caused by mutation of strain in vaccine

New cases of highly infectious disease that should be ‘consigned to the history books’ reported in Nigeria, the DRC, CAR and AngolaNew cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine have been reported in four African countries and more children are now being paralysed by vaccine-derived viruses than those infected by viruses in the wild, according to global health numbers.The World Health...

Massive Attack to help map music industry's carbon footprint

Bristol band team up with academics from Manchester University to share tour dataMassive Attack: We’ve toured for years. Now we’ll have to changeLast week Coldplay announced they were to stop touring until they were sure it would be carbon neutral; now Massive Attack are partnering with academics to map the carbon footprint of the music industry.The researchers from Manchester University’s...