Which covid-19 treatments work and how close are we to getting more?
28 July 2020
There are very few drugs shown to help with covid-19, but along with dexamethasone and remdesivir, some new medicines are showing potential
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Sarah Gilbert on how her team is making the Oxford coronavirus vaccine
28 July 2020
Sarah Gilbert, head scientist on the Oxford vaccine for covid-19 explains why we have reason to be hopeful and what her life is like right now
Bacteria dug up from beneath the seabed may be 100 million years old
28 July 2020
Beneath the Pacific Ocean there are communities of bacteria that have survived since the reign of the dinosaurs – and some individual cells may have been alive for over 100 million years
Coronavirus vaccine hope rises after a flurry of positive results
28 July 2020
There are more than 160 coronavirus vaccines in development, and we don't yet know if any will work, but a string of promising results offers hope for the long run
Watch a beam of light bounce off mirrors in ultra-slow motion
27 July 2020
For the first time, researchers have taken a video of a pulse of laser light as it moves in three dimensions, using a camera with a shutter speed of a trillionth of a second. It could potentially be used to see around corners
Biggest ever map of the universe reveals 11 billion years of history
27 July 2020
A huge survey of the universe has been able to peer back into the deep past, revealing 80 per cent of the universe’s 14-billion-year history
Coronavirus: Second wave hits Asia as global cases continue to soar
27 July 2020
Asian countries such as China and Vietnam are seeing a resurgence of the virus as daily global covid-19 cases hit 300,000, with more than half occurring in the Americas
Birdwatching AI can recognise individual birds from behind
27 July 2020
Artificial intelligence that can recognise individual birds is being developed for biologists studying wild animals, but could also be adapted so that people can identify individual birds in their surroundings
How a Jewish ghetto beat a typhus epidemic during the second world war
24 July 2020
Jews imprisoned in a ghetto during the second world war stamped out a big typhus outbreak using public health measures like those currently being used to fight covid-19
Mould from Chernobyl nuclear reactor tested as radiation shield on ISS
24 July 2020
A radiation-absorbing fungus discovered in Chernobyl blocked harmful cosmic rays on the International Space Station and may help protect future Mars colonies
