9 December 2020
A researcher has claimed that England didn’t need a second lockdown because daily covid-19 daily cases were already peaking under regional restrictions, but other scientists disagree
9 December 2020
Studying ourselves gets more complex with every breakthrough in genetics, physics or microbiology, but doing so can help us understand others a little better, too.
9 December 2020
Geologists have often served fossil fuel exploration - now is the time for them to focus on climate change and other global sustainability goals, says Christopher Jackson
9 December 2020
Covid-19 continues to split some people along party lines. We are now beginning to work out why, writes Graham Lawton
9 December 2020
The highest rate of coronavirus infections in England at present is in people aged between 11 and 24, raising the risk of them infecting older or vulnerable relatives at family gatherings
9 December 2020
Italy is banning travel, the UK has household bubbles, Germans are isolating and Austria is mass testing. Which approach to coronavirus at Christmas is likely to work best?
8 December 2020
A week after the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was approved in the UK, the immunisation of people over 80 and some healthcare staff has begun
7 December 2020
A new collection of rock drawings, discovered by an international research team, appears to have been made by the Amazon’s earliest human residents 12,500 years ago, and gives us a glimpse of their lives
4 December 2020
A US project has found that AI-controlled military robots perform worse when humans interrupt them – but letting the robots operate alone raises serious ethical questions
4 December 2020
Tapping on devices that is detected by voice assistants could potentially be used to deduce what a person is typing on their phone up to half a metre away
