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Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?

Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.

• 29 mins

Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts

A medical scan which reveals where HIV and other viruses hide in the body.

• 29 mins

Thirty years after the Earth Summit

Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?

• 29 mins

Monster microbe

Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.

• 34 mins

Extreme heat death risk in Latin America

New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities

• 32 mins

Long Covid ‘brain fog’

New insights into the cause of Long Covid ‘brain fog’

• 30 mins

First images from the James Webb Space Telescope

A sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope.

• 31 mins

Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere

Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?

• 29 mins

The first galaxies at the universe's dawn

James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time

• 27 mins

Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts

Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells

• 29 mins

Icelandic volcano erupts again

Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption.

• 28 mins

Deadly drought

The gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought

• 28 mins

Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed

The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations

• 26 mins

The China heatwave and the new normal

The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere

• 28 mins

The genetics of human intelligence

A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development

• 26 mins

Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods

A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.

• 29 mins

Should we mine the deep sea?

A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.

• 26 mins

The final moments of DART

Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth

• 26 mins

Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners

We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements

• 30 mins

Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats

Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders

• 31 mins

The most powerful explosion ever recorded

A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed

• 27 mins

Seismic events on Mars

New data from Nasa reveals information on Mars’ origin and evolution.

• 26 mins

What peat can tell us about our future

Peat can offer us early alarm bells to climate change tipping points.

• 26 mins

Neurons that restore walking in paralysed patients

Neurons that restore walking in patients with spinal cord injuries have been identified

• 30 mins

Online harassment of Covid scientists

Virologists studying Covid-19 have been subject to online threats

• 27 mins

A distant planet’s atmosphere

The chemical composition of planet WASP-39b's atmosphere, 700 light years away

• 28 mins

COVID spreads in China

COVID spreads in China

• 34 mins

Ancient warmth in Greenland

Climate change in the Arctic

• 31 mins

Fusion milestone

Fusion milestone - the science behind the headlines

• 33 mins

Mosquito pesticide failing

Mosquito pesticide failing

• 27 mins