COVID: why some people with symptoms don't get tested

Kleber Cordeiro/Shutterstock Testing people with COVID symptoms has been a pillar of the UK’s pandemic response, reducing transmission by identifying and isolating those with the virus. But to be effective, it relies on people with symptoms getting tested, which raises an obvious question: what proportion of symptomatic people actually takeContinue Reading

Curious Kids: will time ever stop?

Olga_Kuzmina/Shutterstock Will time ever stop? – Casandra, aged 11, Epsom, UK Time began when the universe did. How – and if – the universe ends will determine whether time will end as well. We think the universe started out squeezed into an infinitely small space. For some reason we doContinue Reading

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An outfit worn by Years and Years frontman Olly Alexander, historical documents and transgender portraits are among the exhibits that could be on show when it opens in King’s Cross in the Spring. The charity Queer Britain has taken on the ground floor of the Art Fund building in GranaryContinue Reading