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La Libre: the proposed world wealth tax

Belgian news. "Economists from the London School of Economics and the University of Warwick, however, estimated in a study at the end of 2020 that a 5% tax on assets above 500,000 pounds could bring in 260 billion pounds."

Wed 21 Apr 2021, 13:38 | Tags: Coverage

Gazeta: Volunteers will be infected with COVID-19 to see how we are protected from a prior infection

Polish news. "We hope this research will significantly improve our understanding of the dynamics of viral infection and immune response, and provide valuable information that can help scientists design vaccines and develop antiviral therapies," says Prof. Lawrence Young of the University of Warwick.

See also Cosenza Channel (Italian), Nurse Times (Italian), Secolo d'Italia (Italian), V Notize (Italian)

Wed 21 Apr 2021, 13:14 | Tags: COVID19, Coverage, Expert comment

Interfax Russia: Siberian scientists will engage in seismic diagnostics of plasma in the sun's corona

Russian news. Scientists of the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP, Irkutsk) are starting the project "Seismology of flare regions in the Sun", designed for 2021-2023, reports the publication of the SB RAS "Science in Siberia".

“The processes of flare energy release are the most powerful in the solar system, they are closely related to potentially dangerous geoeffective events - coronal mass ejections and solar cosmic rays," quoted in the message the words of the professor at the University of Warwick (Great Britain), Valery Nakaryakov, participating in the project.

Tue 20 Apr 2021, 17:03 | Tags: Coverage

Info Salus: A study tests the usefulness of anti-choking devices

Spanish health news. "A study carried out by researchers at the University of Warwick and the Intensive Care Unit at Birmingham Hospital in Great Britain, tests the usefulness of anti-choke devices in relation to standard abdominal compression protocols."


Mon 19 Apr 2021, 10:47 | Tags: Coverage

GQ French: Having a child would affect new parents' sleep for six years

"A study, conducted by researchers at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and published in the journal Sleep, reveals that parents' night-time rest could be affected for up to six years later. the birth of their first child.

Fri 16 Apr 2021, 11:41 | Tags: Coverage

Yahoo! Noticias: Risks from COVID "will never be zero," says scientist

Spanish news. Dr Mike Tildesley, a reader in infectious disease modeling at the University of Warwick and a member of the Pandemic Influenza Scientific Group on government modeling, said Brits should manage risks by following social distancing guidelines and wearing face masks.

Fri 16 Apr 2021, 11:12 | Tags: COVID19, Coverage, Expert comment

La Tribune: who will we be in the world after this?

French news. "For Côme Chabaille, in 2nd year of management at the University of Warwick, 'it is certainly a very hard period but very interesting from an intellectual point of view because many opportunities arise.'"

Thu 15 Apr 2021, 17:09 | Tags: COVID19, Coverage

Libération: reopening the pubs in the UK

French news. "We don't know how well the tests work in terms of accuracy when people do it at home," Sian Taylor-Phillips, professor of health sciences at the University of Warwick, commented sceptically on Sky News, this Monday.

Thu 15 Apr 2021, 17:06 | Tags: COVID19, Coverage, Expert comment

AI 4 Business: Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer

Italian tech news. "...there are those like Tom Sorell who propose that the laws postulated by Asimov should be updated and that it is necessary to discuss 'a new set of laws that are better suited to the astounding advances made in the field of robotics and AI technology'. Sorell is a robotic ethics expert and professor at the University of Warwick in the UK."

Thu 15 Apr 2021, 17:03 | Tags: Coverage, Expert comment


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