Europe: News and Commentary
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."
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.
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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.
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."
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.
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.
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.'"
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.
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."
RND: Britain could achieve herd immunity
German news. "At the end of March, a study by the British University of Warwick came to the conclusion that herd immunity is no longer possible with the help of corona vaccinations. Instead, the researchers had warned of numerous new infections."