We must reinvent urban spaces to improve the health of city dwellers
24 March 2021
The pandemic has driven home the connections between access to green space and our physical and mental health - we should use this to reinvent our cities
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Does local honey really work as a hay fever cure?
24 March 2021
Eating local honey is often recommended as a treatment for hay fever. Does it have any effect? James Wong investigates
This cloud of bats in Thailand could help us probe covid-19's origins
24 March 2021
Photographer Adam Dean's striking shot of bats emerging from a Thai cave highlights research into the key question of whether covid-19 originates in bats
In Ghana, covid-19 feels like just another familiar health threat
24 March 2021
Understanding how covid-19 has been perceived in West African nations like Ghana is crucial to tackling it, says Ama de-Graft Aikins
Mistrust fuels covid-19 vaccine doubts in Colombia's Indigenous groups
24 March 2021
Poor communication and lack of transparency from the Colombian government are fuelling vaccine hesitancy among many Indigenous communities who are already among the most vulnerable to covid-19
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy is declining as global roll-out ramps up
24 March 2021
People in many rich nations are becoming more willing to have a covid-19 vaccine, matching attitudes in poorer countries where most people say they would accept a jab when available
Europeans get cold feet over covid-19 vaccines as third wave hits
23 March 2021
More than half of people in France, Germany and Spain believe that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is unsafe, according to a YouGov poll, as a third wave of infections hits Europe
Embryos reverse ageing to become younger than when they first formed
22 March 2021
An embryo can reverse signs of ageing and appear younger than the fertilised egg from which it arose. This almost paradoxical finding suggests that embryos are able to rejuvenate, which could lead to ways of reversing age-related
Parasites may make dogs smell good to disease-spreading sandflies
18 March 2021
A parasite that causes visceral leishmaniasis, a disease that can be fatal, ups its chances of spreading by making the dogs it inhabits smell good to sandflies that can go on to bite humans
Hybrid coronaviruses from merged variants are spreading between people
18 March 2021
Recombinant viruses made up of two coronavirus variants mashed together are now circulating widely among people, although for now they don't seem to carry mutations that make them more dangerous
