A woman with half a brain offers more proof of the organ's superpowers
12 February 2020
From a teenager excelling with half a brain to the organ's visual areas being co-opted in people who are blind, our brain's ability to adapt continues to amaze
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Coronavirus: How well prepared are countries for a covid-19 pandemic?
12 February 2020
No country is fully prepared for a coronavirus pandemic, according to a public health expert. But some countries will be better placed to handle an outbreak than others
How bad is the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak likely to get?
11 February 2020
The death rate of Covid-19, caused by the new coronavirus, may be lower than some estimates suggest, but the number of cases may be much higher
World’s largest ever firework successfully explodes over Colorado
11 February 2020
Weighing around 1270 kilograms, the largest ever firework travelled at more than 480 kilometres and exploded over Steamboat Springs in Colorado
DNA firms are set to profit from your data as testing demand falls
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23andMe and Ancestry are laying off staff as sales slump – but there’s plenty of profit to be made from their huge DNA databases
CRISPR cancer trial finds that gene-edited immune cells are safe
6 February 2020
Three people with advanced tumours received a dose of CRISPR gene-edited immune cells and had no serious side effects, paving the way for more trials using this technique
A fingerprint can show if someone has taken cocaine or just touched it
6 February 2020
A person who has ingested cocaine will excrete a compound that can be detected from a single fingerprint, even if they have washed their hands
Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards
5 February 2020
Every day on Pluto, nitrogen puffs out the icy world’s heart-shaped plain into the atmosphere, and every night it refreezes, creating winds unlike any we’ve seen before
Overactive immune cells in babies may lead to childhood asthma
5 February 2020
Babies whose immune cells produce more pathogen-fighting proteins are more likely to develop temporary or persistent asthma later in life
Extinct date palms grown from 2000-year-old seeds found near Jerusalem
5 February 2020
An extinct variety of date palm tree has been grown from ancient seeds preserved in the Judean desert for 2000 years, the oldest seeds ever germinated
