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Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts
Science news and highlights of the week
Thirty years after the Earth Summit
Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?
Monster microbe
Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.
Extreme heat death risk in Latin America
New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities
Long Covid ‘brain fog’
New insights into the cause of Long Covid ‘brain fog’
First images from the James Webb Space Telescope
A sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?
The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time
Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells
Icelandic volcano erupts again
Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption
Deadly drought
The gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought
Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations
The China Heatwave and the New Normal
The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere
The genetics of human intelligence
A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development
Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.
Should we mine the deep sea?
A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.
The final moments of DART
Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth
Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners
We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements
Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats
Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders
The most powerful explosion ever recorded
A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed
Seismic events on Mars
New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution.
What peat can tell us about our future
Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.
Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients
Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified.
Online harassment of Covid scientists
Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats.
A distant planet’s atmosphere
A distant planet's atmosphere
COVID spreads in China
Ancient warmth in Greenland
Climate change in the Arctic
Fusion milestone
Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines
Mosquito pesticide failing
The James Webb Space Telescope - the first 6 months
NASA's James Webb Telescope: science in the images
One year on from the Tonga eruption
We take a look at everything we’ve learnt since the Tonga volcano erupted a year ago.
