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Will COVID cause complications for decades?
By now the story of how new viral threats emerge should be familiar – the close contact with infected animals, ...
Estimated 140,000 plants facing extinction, report finds, threatening progress in medicine, farming
Plants and fungi hold promise as future medicines, fuels and foods, according to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. But opportunities ...
Reassurance on COVID and school children: Respected study shows ‘tiny’ risk
Children's risk of needing hospital treatment for coronavirus is "tiny" and critical care "even tinier," [researchers] say. However, black children, ...
COVID logistical nightmare: 8,000 jumbo jets needed to globally deliver vaccine
The equivalent of 8,000 Boeing 747s will be needed [to ship a coronavirus vaccine worldwide], the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has ...
What’s it like being in a Phase 3 coronavirus vaccine trial?
I’m at St George’s for an initial screening as a volunteer in the Oxford University trial to test the ChAdOx1 ...
Birth rates expected to crash by half in coming decades in some countries, driven by educated, working women
Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. And 23 nations - ...
Kremlin-backed Russian hacker spies tried to steal vaccine research
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said [hackers targeting coronavirus vaccine information] "almost certainly" operated as "part of Russian ...
Missing antibodies: Why herd immunity may be “unachievable” without mass deaths or long-shot vaccine
[A] study of more than 60,000 people estimates that around just 5% of the Spanish population has developed antibodies, the ...
Testing negative for COVID-19 antibodies? Many people still have some protection against the virus
For every person testing positive for antibodies, two [people with negative tests] were found to have specific T-cells which identify ...
Food from thin air: Turning CO2 into protein could provide sustainable food source
Bacteria could feed the world. While some bacteria turn CO2 into valuable fuels, other bacteria – called ‘hydrogenotrophs’ – can ...
If every virus was wiped off the earth, ‘the world will be a wonderful place—for about a day and a half, and then we’d all die’
If given the choice to magically wave a wand and cause all viruses to disappear, most people would probably jump ...
DNA analysis of 5,000-year-old Irish remains reveals an incestuous elite social class
[Researchers found] an adult male buried at the 5,000-year-old Newgrange monument; his DNA revealed that his parents were first-degree relatives, ...
Why COVID-19 won’t be our last pandemic: We’ve created a ‘perfect storm’ for wildlife disease spillover
[Researchers] have now developed a pattern-recognition system to predict which wildlife diseases pose most risk to humans. [Editor's note: Health ...
Lab-grown crustaceans modeled after cell-based meats could be first alternative seafood to enter the market
In general, alternative seafood poses an enormous opportunity for investors. There’s huge potential for replicating the many types of seafood ...
‘Partnership with sunlight’: Why staying inside all the time makes us vulnerable to infections
For the past two months, a sizable chunk of the world’s population has been shuttered inside their homes, only stepping ...
‘Enormous potential’: Recently discovered microbe could protect mosquitoes from malaria
Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The team in Kenya and the ...
Tracking down the missing link in the coronavirus transmission chain
It was a matter of "when not if" an animal passed the coronavirus from wild bats to humans, scientists say ...
Beyond Meat debuts plant-based menu options in China’s just-reopened Starbucks, KFC locations
As China reopens restaurants and cafes, more plant-based "fake" meat products are popping up on menus. On [April 22], Beyond ...
Origins of symmetry: This ancient worm-like creature may be a key to our own evolution
A worm-like creature that burrowed on the seafloor more than 500 million years ago may be key to the evolution ...
Why social distancing is so crucial in the fight against COVID-19
While Covid-19 is different in many ways from the Spanish flu – particularly in terms of who it affects and its ...
Video: What CRISPR means for human evolution
Tech experts discuss the past, present and future of CRISPR gene editing. How will the technology affect our future generations? ...
Global plan to halt extinction criticized for failing to address species humans don’t like
A global plan to halt the loss of nature is "weak" in one key area, say scientists. The new 10-year ...
Meat takes a toll on the planet, but these vegan favorites come at a ‘heavy’ environmental price, too
It has all the makings of a delicious smoothie – a dollop of almond butter, an avocado, a few slices ...
‘They weren’t just surviving’: Gibraltar caves give unprecedented peek into daily lives of last Neanderthals
Neanderthals were a resilient group. They existed for about 200,000 years longer than we modern humans (Homo sapiens) have been ...
Viewpoint: We need to rebrand the BRCA ‘breast cancer’ genes to help men understand their own risks
Both men and women have the same risk of developing BRCA1 and 2 gene mutations, but men are ten times less likely to get ...
Veganism bad for your brain? Recent research raises controversial questions about plant-based diets
The idea that avoiding meat is bad for our brains makes some intuitive sense; anthropologists have been arguing about what ...
T-cell that can fight all cancers: Scientists discover promising part of our immune system
Our immune system is our body's natural defence against infection, but it also attacks cancerous cells. The scientists were looking ...
Glyphosate herbicide cancer fears could turn electricity, microwaves into viable weed-killing tools
Concern about glyphosate - the world's most widely-used weedkiller - has been growing since 2015, when the World Health Organization's ...
