Covid-19

Articles, podcasts, interviews and answers to questions about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and the wider coronavirus family...

30 March 2021

What should the hospital of the future look like?

26 March 2021

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

23 March 2021

What happens between the first COVID vaccine and the second?

23 March 2021

Pulling information out of what we leave behind

23 March 2021

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

23 March 2021

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

22 March 2021

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

12 March 2021

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

12 March 2021

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

11 March 2021

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

09 March 2021

What's the latest in COVID news

09 March 2021

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

09 March 2021

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

01 March 2021

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

28 February 2021

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

27 February 2021

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

24 February 2021

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

24 February 2021

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

24 February 2021

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

23 February 2021

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

23 February 2021

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

23 February 2021

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

23 February 2021

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

23 February 2021

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