Covid-19

What should the hospital of the future look like?

What masks can and cannot block, and why some people refuse to believe that Covid-19 is the real deal...

What happens between the first COVID vaccine and the second?

Pulling information out of what we leave behind

The vaccine was suspended in several EU countries, but why?

What's going on below when the ground starts to shake...

How long does Covid-19 immunity last? And how long does the genetic material from a coronavirus vaccine persist in the...

Are more neck bones the reason for a long neck? Also, why do some people sink, and does lightning travel upwards, or...

There's light on the horizon when it comes to controlling the airborne spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19...

Are we in danger of putting all our eggs into the COVID basket and ignoring the dangers of worldwide obesity?

What's the latest in COVID news

We take a look at the science behind some of the biggest stories of the moment

The microbes that inhabit our intestines, scientists say, may hold the key to spotting - and treating - those most at...

How does herd immunity work in practice, and are the vaccines we have likely to achieve it?

Coronavirus variants, the latest on the vaccines and vaccine hesitancy, and why big flu outbreaks might be hot on Covid...

Why do we age? Why not evolve to be better at repairing ourselves? Also, the basis of PCR tests for Covid-19...

How concerned should we be about new coronavirus variants? That’s what Pei-Yong Shi is trying to answer...

You might know them as the "UK variant" or "South African variant" - but what are they really...

Meet the most critical coronavirus variants. Plus: catching a serial killer; and fish gaining limbs...

Schoolchildren have spent much of the pandemic learning virtually. Here's how two kids find the situation...

The WHO team dispatched to China, to investigate the origins of the pandemic, have published their results...

Researchers in Scotland find problems - unsurprisingly - where alcohol is involved...

Evidence that there are important genes in COVID that are being ignored in the literature

With the UK making plans to reopen schools on 8th March, scientists have tried to predict the consequences...