Doubling Earth’s energy imbalance

Nasa scientists find a doubling of our planet’s net solar energy absorption in 15 years

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Tales of unexpected DNA data

A virologist uncovers more dots to join in the hunt for Covid’s origins.

• 40 mins

Insects in incredible detail

New technology gives intricate 3D scans of insects

• 33 mins

Human induced climate change heats up fast

The record-breaking recent Pacific North-West heatwave is attributable to humans.

• 34 mins

Science when the funding dries up

The UK Government’s cap on Official Development Aid, and its consequences for science.

• 31 mins

Your molecular machinery, now in 3D

DeepMind publishes 350,000 of the structures which make all living things tick.

• 34 mins

The earliest traces of animal life on earth.

Do rocks found in Canada show animal life 350 million years older than any found before?

• 35 mins

Record-shattering weather

Why we should expect more sudden extreme temperatures

• 30 mins

Methane: A climate solution?

Can reductions in this potent greenhouse gas help keep global temperature rises down?

• 28 mins

Seismic citizen science in Hispaniola

Is there more to come from the Haitian earthquake fault system?

• 38 mins

World’s first DNA Covid vaccine

Authorities in India approve a new type of needle-free triple-dose vaccine

• 37 mins

Hurricane season intensifies

Climate change increases the havoc caused by Hurricane Ida across parts of the US.

• 31 mins

Keep most fossil fuel in ground to meet 1.5 degree goal

Unexploited oil, gas and coal reserves must stay in the ground to avert temperature rise

• 28 mins

Ebola can remain dormant for five years

Ebola infections can re-emerge after five years, and cause new outbreaks

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New evidence for Sars-CoV-2’s origin in bats

Study of bats in Laos has identified viruses with a similar spike protein to Sars-CoV-2

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Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa

The spread of resistance to one of the most important anti-malarials

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Youngest rock samples from the moon

Youngest samples from lava flows on the moon returned by Chang’e-5 mission

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Wetlands under attack

The invasive cordgrass taking over China’s coastal wetlands.

• 28 mins

Red blood cells’ surprising immune function

New research reveals red blood cells form part of the body’s immune defence.

• 27 mins

Can we still avoid climate catastrophe?

The UNEP Emissions Gap Report reveals we need to do more to reach our climate goals.

• 26 mins

Jet fuel from thin air

A solar powered solution to emissions creates aviation fuel from atmospheric gases

• 32 mins

Bambi got Covid

Why the discovery of Covid 19 in white-tail deer has implications for climate policy

• 27 mins

The end for coal power?

The fossil fuel is on target to be replaced with renewables in both India and China.

• 27 mins

Deliberately doomed dart

The sacrificial space mission designed to protect the Earth from asteroid impact.

• 30 mins

Omicron, racism and trust

How the global political response to the new variant is hampering science in Africa

• 29 mins

Can the weather trigger a volcano?

The eruption of Semeru in Java was linked to heavy rain

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Omicron’s rapid replication rate

Omicron replicates seventy times faster than earlier variants.

• 30 mins

Omicron – mild or monster?

Cases of the latest coronavirus variant are mild, so far – but that’s not the whole story

• 28 mins

2021: The year of variants

The year began with Alpha, and ends with Omicron. What have we learnt?

• 27 mins

Corbevax – A vaccine for the world?

Could a cheap and conventional vaccine for Covid-19 end the pandemic?

• 27 mins

Have we got it wrong on Omicron?

It seems to be no more viable than the earlier delta variant

• 28 mins

Tonga eruption – how it happened

Why a small volcanic eruption had a global impact

• 29 mins

The roots of Long Covid

Detecting the early signals for long Covid

• 26 mins

Identifying a more infectious HIV variant

A new form of HIV has been uncovered in the Netherlands.

• 29 mins

Inside Wuhan's coronavirus lab

The inside story of Wuhan’s coronavirus lab

• 30 mins

Bone repair from Covid-19 vaccine technology

Messenger RNA used in vaccines against Covid-19 has been used to encourage bone healing

• 30 mins

Reforming the ‘China Initiative’

US scheme accused of persecuting scientists is to be refocused

• 26 mins

Covid -19 origins

New analysis shows where inside the Wuhan market the virus first showed itself

• 30 mins

Why are Covid-19 cases rising in Hong Kong?

The territory is experiencing a rapid increase in infections and deaths

• 29 mins

Covid in the sewers

Could novel forms of the virus be lurking in wastewater?

• 30 mins

Warming world

Extreme temperatures recorded in Antarctica and the Arctic.

• 32 mins

Radioactive Red Forest

Are Russian troops in forests around Chernobyl receiving a dangerous dose of radiation?

• 29 mins

Tsunami detective in Tonga

What really happened in the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga in January?

• 34 mins

How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression

Brain scanning study reveals how psilocybin can help people with severe depression

• 30 mins

Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden

Solar geoengineering to curb climate change could worsen global malaria burden.

• 33 mins

The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave

The Indian subcontinent is roasting in a prolonged heatwave. Is climate change to blame?

• 31 mins

Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100

Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta is set to sink beneath the sea by the end of the century

• 29 mins

Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart

Astronomers image the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy

• 29 mins

Death in the rainforest

Climate change may have doubled the death rate of rainforest trees over the last 50 years

• 29 mins

Heat death by volcano and other stories

New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed

• 29 mins

Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?

Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.

• 29 mins

Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts

A medical scan which reveals where HIV and other viruses hide in the body.

• 29 mins

Thirty years after the Earth Summit

Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?

• 29 mins

Monster microbe

Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.

• 34 mins

Extreme heat death risk in Latin America

New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities

• 32 mins

Long Covid ‘brain fog’

New insights into the cause of Long Covid ‘brain fog’

• 30 mins

First images from the James Webb Space Telescope

A sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope.

• 31 mins

Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere

Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?

• 29 mins

The first galaxies at the universe's dawn

James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time

• 27 mins

Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts

Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells

• 29 mins

Icelandic volcano erupts again

Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption.

• 28 mins

Deadly drought

The gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought

• 28 mins

Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed

The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations

• 26 mins

The China heatwave and the new normal

The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere

• 28 mins

The genetics of human intelligence

A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development

• 26 mins

Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods

A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.

• 29 mins

Should we mine the deep sea?

A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.

• 26 mins

The final moments of DART

Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth

• 26 mins

Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners

We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements

• 30 mins

Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats

Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders

• 31 mins

The most powerful explosion ever recorded

A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed

• 27 mins

Seismic events on Mars

New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution.

• 26 mins

What peat can tell us about our future

Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.

• 26 mins

Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients

Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified

• 30 mins

Online harassment of Covid scientists

Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats

• 27 mins

A distant planet’s atmosphere

The chemical composition of planet WASP-39b's atmosphere, 700 light years away

• 28 mins

COVID spreads in China

COVID spreads in China

• 34 mins

Ancient warmth in Greenland

Climate change in the Arctic

• 31 mins

Fusion milestone

Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines

• 33 mins

Mosquito pesticide failing

Mosquito pesticide failing

• 27 mins

The James Webb Space Telescope: The first six months

What have scientists learned since Nasa launched its revolutionary telescope?

• 32 mins

One year on from the Tonga eruption

We take a look at everything we’ve learnt since the Tonga volcano erupted a year ago.

• 28 mins

Atmospheric rivers

The phenomenon driving California’s extreme weather

• 34 mins

Climate science activism

What happens when climate scientists take to the streets?

• 29 mins

Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink

A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain

• 28 mins

Science on ice

The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter’s icy moons

• 33 mins

Turkey-Syria earthquake

Turkey’s most powerful earthquake on record

• 32 mins

CRISPR & bioethics

He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018

• 31 mins

Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar

Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.

• 32 mins

Drought worsens in East Africa

Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.

• 32 mins

Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril

Human Genome Editing: curing genetic disease and ensuring it's safe and available to all.

• 34 mins

Return of Cyclone Freddy

Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month.

• 32 mins

Animals at the Wuhan Market

What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic?

• 31 mins

Gene editing breakthrough

New technique to correct gene errors in sick patients

• 33 mins

Chasing tornados in the American mid-West

Chasing tornados in the American mid-West – the science behind the current outbreaks.

• 30 mins

Bird flu: The global threat

H5N1 avian flu is racing across the world. What can be done to control it?

• 31 mins

Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

• 28 mins

The truth about the Sudan biolab

Khartoum’s National Public Health Laboratory is caught up in the Sudanese conflict.

• 32 mins

Darwin dumped from Indian classrooms

The exclusion of Darwinism from the curriculum prompts protests in India

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