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More than two tonnes of spilled nurdles may still be in the River Tyne

An estimated 2.2 tonnes of plastic pellets, equivalent to around one in eight of those spilled into the River Tyne, remained in the estuary six weeks after the incident, according to new modelling.

Comment: Regency expert explains the dancing in Sense and Sensibility

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Meg Kobza discusses the social importance of dancing in the Regency age as depicted in the new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.

New clues to Parkinson’s progression from vulnerable brain cells

Researchers have carried out the first single-cell analysis of mitochondrial DNA in a population of brainstem neurons that are particularly vulnerable to degeneration in Parkinson’s disease.