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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
Hits from space
Astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4 to decide if it will miss us in 2032.
Who runs science?
A call from European flu experts to create a more sustainable research network.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?
How astronomers minimised our asteroid angst, despite a threat to our darkest skies
An uncertain forecast for meteorology
As US government cuts imperil weather data, meteorologists worldwide forecast trouble.
New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses
WHO pandemic call, an H5N1 call to arms from global health leaders.
Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"
Individual stories of those affected by the Trump istration's upheaval of science
Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations
As the US halts all Covid related research, what is the impact on pandemic preparedness?
Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth
How Myanmar’s tragic earthquake left a 500km scar on earth's surface in just 90 seconds.
Researching pain, painlessly
Researchers grow a mini human pain pathway in a flask for testing pain painlessly
Any more for Moore’s Law?
It's 60 years since Gordon Moore predicted computing power would double every two years
Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
Scientists find yet more data from early Covid to suggest zoonotic cross-over as origin.
Scientists of the world unite
Earth science in every direction from the European Geosciences Union’s 2025 assembly
Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding
Trump signs executive order restricting funding to ‘dangerous’ biological research
Vaccinating rabies’ reservoir dogs
Can the WHO’s Zero by 2030 be achieved for dog-mediated rabies?
WHO Pandemic Agreement reached
124 countries have agreed on a global effort to fight future pandemic health threats.
13 Months To (a chip off) The Moon
China’s audacious Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is underway.
