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Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method
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New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.
Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.
NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars
Counting the heat health threat from climate change
Future heat death toll; infections we catch from wildlife;
Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine.
Trouble in Greenland
Greenland Ice Sheet; stalagmites & climate change;
Covid-19 Therapy Controversy
Is convalescent plasma really a ‘tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19?
Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
More than 2 million people live around this volcano, which has become more active
Covid -19 science versus politics
Are the politicians finally coming round to the scientist’s views on the way forward?
Malaria resistance breakthrough
Discovered in East Africa, the finding holds promise for completely new treatments.
Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission
They're only designed to prevent disease developing, none have been tested against spread
Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
Are children are spreading the virus more than any other group
Do Covid–19 mutations matter?
Results from the most detailed investigation to date into mutations in the Covid-19 virus
Covid -19 mortality
Why is there such a range in the number of deaths from Covid -19 between countries?
Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid
Science news and highlights of the week
Osiris Rex stows asteroid material
Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans
What does transmission of coronavirus from mink to humans mean for the future vaccine?
Covid-19 defeats US Marines
The virus spread amongst recruits despite a range of thorough precautions
Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity
Immunity to the virus may last longer than previously thought
Vaccines – the Covid confusion
The problems with incomplete or contradictory trial data published by press release.
Freak weather getting even freakier
This year has seen record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, and now an Australian heatwave
The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus
Around three-quarters of the city’s population are thought to have been infected
Covid -19 – Mutations are normal
Viral mutations happen all the time but we still need to be wary of their impact.
A year with Covid -19
Looking back on how the virus emerged and the scientific response
Coping with Covid
Making sense of a year of confusion
New variants of SARS-Cov2
SARS-Cov2: UK and South African new variants
Gravitational waves and black holes
Gravitational waves from colliding supermassive black holes
Saving the Northern White Rhino
Bringing back the Northern White Rhino from extinction
Mixing Covid vaccines
Can Covid vaccines be mixed?
Perseverance approaches Mars
How Perseverance will land on Mars
