11 November 2020
Mink are the latest animal to be infected with covid-19, risking the prospect of a dangerous mutation that could pass back to humans. While the threat is small, there are many reasons that animals catching the coronavirus is bad news
9 November 2020
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech say their coronavirus vaccine is 90 per cent effective in phase III trials. How excited should we be about the news, and what questions remain unanswered?
9 November 2020
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may glow in the dark, which could help NASA’s Europa Clipper mission determine whether the moon’s seas have the ingredients for life
9 November 2020
US president-elect Joe Biden has said he will “listen to science” as he promised to take new stances on tackling covid-19, climate change and other key issues
9 November 2020
An analysis of 112 studies from the past ten years suggests that 55 per cent of sea turtles and 80 per cent of whales have microplastics in their bodies
6 November 2020
Weather services across Europe have been caught in a storm of malicious email attacks in the past week, forcing groups to upgrade security measures and creating challenges for staff
6 November 2020
Biologists have argued for more than 10 years over which animal group is the oldest, but a new analysis points the finger at the jellyfish-like ctenophores
6 November 2020
When controlling a robot, sometimes you have to speak or type like one – but an AI has learned to translate natural human language into robot commands
5 November 2020
Wallabies, native to Australia, have been spotted across Great Britain – and while most probably escaped from zoos or private collections, some might be breeding
5 November 2020
An iceberg the size of Cyprus is on a collision course with South Georgia, risking a major threat to the remote Atlantic island’s globally important penguin and seal colonies
