Will there be another pandemic after covid-19 and are we prepared?
It has been just over five years since the beginning of covid-19…
H5N1 bird flu is closer to gaining pandemic potential than we thought
A highly infectious strain of bird flu has been circulating worldwide since…
New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together
A warty comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi)Andrey Nekrasov / Alamy Stock Photo It…
When, and where, did the covid-19 pandemic really begin?
People carrying out disinfection work at a market in Wuhan, where covid-19…
Heatwaves are surpassing the extremes predicted by climate models
The UK experienced a record-breaking heatwave in July 2022DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty…
Plumes of pollution from big factories can make it snow
Factory aerosols can transform the clouds aboveGetty Images/iStockphoto Plumes of pollution from…
Why farming fish is more unsustainable than catching them in the wild
Claims about the sustainability of fish farms have been vastly overstatedVIKEN KANTARCI/AFP…
Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – and the healthiest
A camellia farm in Jiangxi province, ChinaWan Xiang/Xinhua/Alamy Replacing some existing vegetable…
Stonehenge’s altar stone was brought all the way from Scotland
The altar stone lies inside Stonehenge’s two big rings of stonesGavin Hellier/roberthrding/Getty…
Largest genome sequenced so far is 30 times bigger than a human’s
The South American lungfish probably has a lot of “junk” DNAKatherine Seghers/Louisiana…
