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Winner of the 2021 MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award 08-11-2021 12:00 PM GMT The Medical Research Council (MRC) recognises 10 MRC PhD students for their outstanding writing, announces the winner, and publishes the 10 shortlisted articles. At a virtual awards ceremony on the evening of 21 October, we recognised the science-writing efforts of 10 MRC PhD students shortlisted for MRC’s annual science writing award. And the award goes […] Black holes of all sizes in new gravitational wave catalogue 08-11-2021 09:00 AM GMT The largest catalogue of gravitational wave events ever has been released today, with dozens of ripples in space time captured by a global network of detectors. The aftershocks of huge astronomical events were picked up by a world-wide team of scientists, with leadership from the UK. The team has detected a further 35 gravitational wave […]