The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity's most deadly disease
23 June 2021
New developments in a 10,000-year-old cold case have upended our ideas about how and when tuberculosis began infecting humans – and offered hope for a better vaccine
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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?
23 June 2021
Endangered wildlife often doesn't have time to evolve to rapidly changing environments. Now conservationists are manipulating animal behaviour, using "nudge" techniques akin to those designed to influence humans
The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology
23 June 2021
Finding magnetic fields dating back to the big bang would transform our understanding of how the universe evolved. Now astronomers think they're on brink of such a breakthrough
