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Hurricane Beryl’s trail of destruction
Hurricane Beryl hit the Caribbean, before moving into Mexico and then Texas.
Destination Asteroid Apophis
The ESA is starting preparatory work for its next planetary defence mission.
The human cost of the decline of nature’s carcass cleaners
The loss of vultures in India may be responsible for half a million human deaths.
Examining Nasa's new evidence for Martian life
Mars rock found that may indicate it hosted microbial life billions of years ago
Detecting undetected bird flu cases
Cases of bird flu in farm workers in the US may be going underreported.
The spread of rabies into Cape fur seals
In June this year there was the first detected occurrence of rabies in Cape fur seals.
Fisheries mismanagement uncovered
Fishery assessment models overestimate the sustainability of the world’s fisheries.
Wow! A mystery signal solved
In 1977 astronomers recorded a strange radio transmission, perhaps even from aliens.
Concerning viruses found in fur farmed animals
A survey of diseased animals from fur farms has revealed potentially threatening viruses
A landslide-induced megatsunami in Greenland
The 200-metre-high tsunami sloshed between the cliffs of Dickson Fjord for nine days
Flash floods in the Sahara
The Sahara has been experiencing unusually heavy rainfall due to an extratropical cyclone
Historic weather extremes revealed using tree-rings
The jet stream has shaped extreme weather, influencing harvests, wildfires and epidemics
Excesses of rain
How much did climate change drive storm Helene?
Nobel convergence
A look at the stories behind the Nobel science prizes announced this week.
Marvels of life and death
As fish farming impacts grow, a look at some clever life-hacks at the extremes.
Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities
Does the famous Betelgeuse have an orbiting companion, hidden in plain sight?
Global warming strikes again
The devastating floods around Valencia are easily attributable to climate change.
New ways to study coronaviruses
Scientists in Wuhan and the US unveil a new way to design virus receptors on human cells.
Drastic plastic reductions
Machine learning models suggest pathways to reduce global plastic waste by 91% by 2050.
Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms
Every 2024 Atlantic hurricane was intensified by warming climate, with categories raised.
Fifty years of Charm
Why November 1974 became known as the “November Revolution” in particle physics
Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans
How a single mutation in bovine H5N1 flu can make it prefer human cells.
Warming oceans kill millions of birds
4 million sea birds died in Alaska as a result of a warming pacific.
Sun Grazing
The future of vaccinations, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, and the dawn of complex life.
Five years of Covid: Part one
Five years on from the emergence of Sars CoV-2, what have we learned?
Five years of Covid: Part two
First US avian flu fatality
H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the US and claims its first human life
AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids
New types of snake-bite anti-venoms are designed by AI.
Arctic carbon starting to flip
Thirty per cent of the Arctic is switching from carbon sink to carbon source.
Make science great again
Asteroid Bennu yields a watery pool of history
Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers
The mystery swarm of small earthquakes near the island of Santorini beg for more data
