Europe must tackle its energy crisis now or face a very painful winter
30 March 2022
With energy prices set to rise, European governments must act immediately to reduce consumption and turbocharge renewables
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Reality TV for birds shows that conservation research can pay off
30 March 2022
Thousands of us are glued to the online dramas of two peregrines on the Cal Falcons webcam, but it is just the start of what tech can do for bird studies, writes Annalee Newitz
Zero-covid strategies are being ditched, but they were the best option
30 March 2022
Several countries are now abandoning their goal of reducing the coronavirus's spread as much as possible, but the evidence shows this was the best route to have taken, says Michael Marshall
Myocarditis and covid-19 vaccines: How rare is it and who is at risk?
30 March 2022
With the mRNA covid-19 vaccines being delivered to growing numbers of young people, researchers are looking again at the rare risk of heart inflammation
AI can create a computer inside itself to run another AI or play Pong
30 March 2022
An artificial intelligence trained to mimic the logic circuits of an ordinary computer can run code within itself, potentially speeding up certain calculations
Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight
29 March 2022
The DNA of people who lived in Great Britain thousands of years ago has markers of natural selection at work – and the driving force seems to have been a shortage of vitamin D
Energy price cap means now might be the best time to green your home
29 March 2022
The cost of heating UK homes using traditional technology is rising this week – making green options like solar panels and heat pumps a more affordable alternative
Chronic pain in Black people in US may be linked to gene expression
28 March 2022
Stress-linked changes in the activity of genes may be why Black people in the US often have worse chronic pain than white people
US biofirm plans to make hypoallergenic cats using CRISPR gene editing
28 March 2022
A US company has deleted the genes for the allergy-causing protein in cat cells as a first step towards creating cats that don't trigger allergies
Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs
28 March 2022
A tiny snake-like animal that lived about 308 million years ago had evolved to lose its forelimbs
