7 July 2021
Deadly heatwaves and wildfires show us the risks of continued inaction on climate change. Governments need to act if we are to ensure sepia-tinged hellscapes don’t become a norm
7 July 2021
The UK government will be taking a big gamble by lifting England’s pandemic restrictions in one go. It may be good politics, but is it good public health policy?
7 July 2021
The heat wave engulfing parts of North America may yet jump-start a technological revolution to help us be better prepared for extreme weather in the future, writes Annalee Newitz
7 July 2021
The terminology used in genetics is often scientifically confused or rooted in a racist history. An overhaul is needed to break free from its problematic past, says Adam Rutherford
7 July 2021
Restrictions in England are coming to an end as many countries are struggling to control cases of the delta coronavirus variant
6 July 2021
A virus that causes cold-like symptoms was infecting people 31,000 years ago and may have existed 700,000 years ago – in which case it also plagued other hominins like Neanderthals
5 July 2021
Seahorses and their relatives are the only animals in which males get pregnant – they do so because these species lack genes we thought were vital for a functioning immune system
5 July 2021
People who began farming in Chile’s Atacama desert around 3000 years ago were more lethally violent than their hunter-gatherer predecessors
3 July 2021
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has saved 27,000 deaths in England since the beginning of the year. Clare Wilson speaks to some of its creators - Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green and Theresa Lambe - about the rollercoaster of events that led to this historic...
2 July 2021
An updated version of the ubiquitous JPEG image format used across the internet could bring global bandwidth savings of 30 per cent, say the creators of JPEG XL, who have made the technology royalty-free
