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7 March 2018

The global treatment plan helping to control the HIV epidemic

7 March 2018

At the turn of the century, the best HIV therapies were available only in developed countries. Now, the increasingly global availability of powerful new treatments is helping to bring the HIV epidemic to heel

Stunning shot of Jupiter's swirling storms taken by Juno camera

7 March 2018

NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this image on 7 February from a spot more than 8000 kilometres above Jupiter’s northern cloud tops

Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands

6 March 2018

Two massive colonies of Adélie penguins have been discovered on the Danger Islands off the coast of Antarctica, bringing the global population to 8 million

Doctors race to identify poison affecting former Russian spy

6 March 2018

The substance that left Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal in intensive care in hospital was either delivered in a massive dose, or is a rapidly-acting poison

Biggest ever family tree shows when cousins stopped having sex

1 March 2018

A family tree of 13 million people has been built using data from an ancestry website, and it reveals when and why people started avoiding marrying close relations

The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

28 February 2018

Early Earth may have been smashed into a vapour by a Mars-sized object. Our moon may have formed at the edges of the leftover doughnut-shaped cloud of debris

If you hate bad body odour, you're more likely to support Trump

28 February 2018

A person’s response to badly-smelling body odours is linked to whether they hold right-wing authoritarian views, and can predict if they like President Trump

We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

27 February 2018

Earth microbes have shown they can withstand the environment on Enceladus. If alien life is similar, the methane we’ve found on Saturn’s moon could be from life