3 June 2021
From a bat… or from a lab? It seemed the question of where SARS-CoV-2 originated had been settled, but recently it's been reignited. Amid lots of conflicting and confusing news stories, the team explores what we really know about the origins of covid-19....
3 June 2021
From a bat… or from a lab? It seemed the question of where SARS-CoV-2 originated had been settled, but recently it's been reignited. Amid lots of conflicting and confusing news stories, the team explores what we really know about the origins of...
3 June 2021
Surveillance of right whales in the North Atlantic show that individuals born today will grow to be a metre shorter, on average, than whales born in the early 1980s
2 June 2021
A secure quantum internet is one step closer thanks to a quantum memory made from a crystal that can store entangled photons
27 May 2021
Military drones may have autonomously attacked humans for the first time ever during a conflict in Libya last year, according to a United Nations report
25 May 2021
True photographic memory is yet to be proved but some people have a very rare condition which allows them to recall past events in detail
12 May 2021
Nitrogen pollution poisons our water and clogs our air – and it exacerbates other environmental problems. But if we organise now, we can fight back before it’s too late
12 May 2021
Whale sharks are the world’s largest fish but they can suspend themselves upright while feeding at the water’s surface by sucking in enough air to float
7 May 2021
A new US Navy autonomous drone will locate birds’ nests near airfields, armed with a device that covers the eggs in oil to suffocate the embryos and prevent them hatching
7 May 2021
A proposal to power a future Mars base includes an enormous kite flown by robots, along with solar power and a battery that stores energy by compressing gas underground
