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We must hold a steady course on our response to covid-19

Physics

Ball lightning is so strange it might just come from another dimension

Health

Viruses have busy social lives that we could manipulate to defeat them

Health

Your covid-19 risk: How to navigate this new world of uncertainty

Health

You can manage your covid-19 risk by setting your own 鈥榗ontact budget鈥�

Leaders

Health

We must hold a steady course on our response to covid-19

Cutting transmission of the coronavirus is vital to prevent hospitals being overwhelmed and schools shutting, but also to stop it evolving

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Doctor administrating a covid-19 vaccine

Health

UK trial plans to infect volunteers with the coronavirus in January

A UK trial that involves intentionally infecting healthy volunteers with the coronavirus will start in January if approved by health authorities. The aim is to establish the minimum infectious dose before testing potential vaccines

Health

India’s coronavirus pandemic is leading to many more deaths from TB

Health

Exclusive: Concerns raised about vital UK covid-19 infection survey

Health

Is the coronavirus evolving and will it become more or less deadly?

Life

Python tried to eat sleeping woman while being tracked by biologists

Environment

Artificial rope bridges help stop rare primates jumping to extinction

Health

Historical records hint daughters of older mothers may be less fertile

Humans

Climate change may have driven early human species to extinction

Physics

First room-temperature superconductor could spark energy revolution

Environment

Ivory Coast鈥檚 elephant populations are now in catastrophic decline

Technology

Water could be extracted from desert air using heat from sunlight

Life

Some animals may use their penis bone to scoop out a rival’s sperm

Space

The moon had a magnetic field that helped protect Earth’s atmosphere

Life

Leafcutter ants choose architecturally sound building materials

Life

Tardigrades survive deadly radiation by glowing in the dark

Analysis

Health

Should we plan for regular ‘circuit-breaker’ coronavirus lockdowns?

Planning regular two-week lockdowns could be better than reacting to changing covid-19 case numbers, some scientists argue 鈥� but the UK may have left it too late for this strategy

Environment

US election 2020: Trump’s impact on the environment, health and space

Health

It is bad science to say covid-19 infections will create herd immunity

Technology

Email should be obsolete by now, so why are we still using it?

Aperture

Technology

CERN muon detector gets major upgrade for better particle hunting

Weighing in at 14,000 tonnes, the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider can now detect more of the subatomic particles created when protons are collided

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Features

Health

Viruses have busy social lives that we could manipulate to defeat them

The coronavirus and others are no lone wolves, they cooperate and compete with one another. Understanding these social interactions could help us fight them

Health

You can manage your covid-19 risk by setting your own 鈥榗ontact budget鈥�

Health

Your covid-19 risk: How to navigate this new world of uncertainty

Physics

Ball lightning is so strange it might just come from another dimension

Culture

Humans

How big data helped elect President Kennedy during the cold war

Big data's power is revealed by two books covering a cold-war version of Cambridge Analytica that helped John F. Kennedy get elected-and how modern social media can rig votes today

Humans

Feels Good Man review: Reclaiming Pepe the Frog from the alt-right

Don鈥檛 Miss: The War on Wildlife podcast exposes our attacks on animals

Humans

Black Box review: Smart sci fi plays with identity, fate and death