15 October 2020
A landslide created a perilously wide gap in the forest canopy on China’s Hainan Island, so researchers made rope bridges to help the endangered Hainan gibbons get across
15 October 2020
A covid-19 infection survey by the UK Office for National Statistics is seen as the gold standard for tracking the coronavirus, but response rates have plummeted, which risks the results being unreliable
14 October 2020
Some 4 billion years ago, the moon may have had a magnetic field that combined with Earth’s to create a powerful magnetic shield that protected our planet’s atmosphere
14 October 2020
Named for its elephants, Ivory Coast once had one of the largest elephant populations in West Africa. Now there are just hundreds left
14 October 2020
A device that uses heat from sunlight to extract water from the air could help provide a sustainable source of water in remote, arid regions
14 October 2020
A material that can transmit electrical current with zero resistance at room temperature has finally been created - but it currently requires a pressure close to that at the centre of Earth
14 October 2020
The Great Barrington Declaration says we should open up society to the coronavirus, but its assumption that herd immunity will result from letting most people get covid-19 is unscientific and irresponsible, says Graham Lawton
13 October 2020
A study of 82 bacula, the bones found in the penis of most male mammals, suggests that they may be used to displace sperm from another male already in a female’s reproductive tract
13 October 2020
South American leafcutter ants (Acromyrmex fracticornis) construct turrets for their nests by carefully selecting materials that are suitable for the job
13 October 2020
Tardigrades are famously near-indestructible, and some have harnessed the power of fluorescence to help them survive intense ultraviolet radiation
