Greening the seas may not be so easy

3 June 2020

How will the virus affect our evolutionary path? (2)

3 June 2020

How will the virus affect our evolutionary path? (1)

3 June 2020

Why #oddlysatisfying videos are so oddly satisfying

3 June 2020

Watching videos of different tasks being completed is oddly satisfying and reminds us of pre-lockdown life, says Annalee Newitz

Why have there been so many coronavirus deaths in the UK?

3 June 2020

How the UK’s handling of testing, contact tracing, protective equipment and lockdown led to one of the highest covid-19 death tolls in the world

124 coronavirus vaccines are in development – but will any work?

3 June 2020

Ten experimental vaccines for covid-19 are already being trialled in people but we don’t know yet if it’s possible to induce long-lasting immunity with a vaccine

Why the universe I invented is right – but still not the final answer

3 June 2020

Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the cosmos – but that is only an approximation to a deeper truth, he says.

Oldest known parasite is a worm-like animal from 512 million years ago

2 June 2020

Hundreds of fossil animals that lived more than 500 million years ago had worm-like objects attached to them – the oldest hard evidence of parasitism

US voting data from millions of people is being traded on the dark web

2 June 2020

High-profile breaches of voting data in the US and other countries have found their way on to the dark web, where they are being traded for as little as $9.99

UK contact tracing plans criticised as lockdown begins to lift

1 June 2020

As coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted in England, critics say the UK government is moving too quickly and that contact tracing systems designed to slow the spread of the virus aren't yet ready