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Turkey’s most powerful earthquake on record
CRISPR & bioethics
He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018.
Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.
Drought worsens in East Africa
Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.
Human genome editing: Promise and Peril
What are the benefits and limitations of gene editing?
Return of Cyclone Freddy
Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month.
Animals at the Wuhan Market
What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic?
Coronation exploration
Why are rituals so important to humans - and why do they often involve precious objects?
Co-operation and cohesion
Social cohesion, cellular cohesion and glue. Science stories inspired by election news
Signals, seaweed and space
The anniversary of the telegraph sparks an unexpected conversation about bioelectricity.
Migrate ideas
The science behind migration, a wall of wind and the real life human labour ing AI
Collapsing pensions and civilisations
French pension protests lead us to the lifespans of people, naked mole rats and societies
Wildfires and wild animals
Smog in North America leads us to conservationists using air pollution to track animals.
Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces
Why does pollen make us sick, what it tells us about the past; and a look at snot palaces
Predictions from the sky and murderous fish
Celebrations of Eid send us on a science-filled odyssey to the stars.
Unexpected elements on the sea bed
The team discover mysterious potato shaped nodules and hydroelectric power in your garden
Nato and the left-handed universe
Nato’s summit has us considering decision-making and the balance of the universe
Barbie in Space
How Barbie is helping humans return to the moon, and is the colour pink actually real?
1234#Invisibility&Moonshot
Why do teenagers share s so often?
The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas
The unexpected science of the World Cup and are banana skins hallucinogenic?
Some of our universe is missing
Could science help trace Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the missing gas in the cosmos?
Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option
Can scientific thinking detect political and corporate corruption?
The man who couldn’t lie
Why do we believe in conspiracy theories, and what’s going on in our brains when we lie?
Protecting the Moon
India's lunar landing has us looking at unexpected science around the moon
Zombies, cows and coups
The wasp that turns cockroaches into zombies and the science hiding behind coups
Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days
As oceans take the heat for global warming, fish find it harder to learn their way.
Can technology read our mind?
The UN General Assembly has us examining how our brains process language
How inflation affects the entire cosmos
The science behind news about inflation leads us to the first moments of the universe.
Complete shutdown
How would it feel wake up several years later?
How bedbugs took over the world
Why is bedbugs' unconventional mode of reproduction so successful?
Putting Madonna to the test
Do Madonna's lyrics stand up to scientific scrutiny?
