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Covid in the sewers
Could novel forms of the virus be lurking in wastewater?
Radioactive Red Forest
Are Russian troops in forests around Chernobyl receiving a dangerous dose of radiation?
Tsunami detective in Tonga
What really happened in the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga in January?
How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression
Brain scanning study reveals how psilocybin can help people with severe depression
Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave
The Indian subcontinent is roasting in a prolonged heatwave. Is climate change to blame?
Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100
Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta is set to sink beneath the sea by the end of the century
Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart
Astronomers image the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy
Death in the rainforest
Climate change may have doubled the death rate of rainforest trees over the last 50 years
Heat death by volcano and other stories
New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed
Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?
Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.
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
