In Short

How shining a light into the eyes recharges the retina

What exactly is an artificial liver?

An unusual collaboration is looking for paintings that reveal clues about how our modern fruits came about...

Researchers think more than 30,000 people in North Western Europe might carry this mutation

Lockdowns, masks, long-term immunity, and the prospect of a Covid comeback...

While global food supplies have been stable so far, an upcoming recession might be one blow too many...

An important resource or an environmental catastrophe?

Humans can understand chimp vocalisations...

Astronomers have taken what might be the first ever picture of a baby planet being formed...

Turns out that eggs choose sperm...

Growing livers in the lab to replace donor transplants...

Where are we now, six months into the COVID-19 pandemic? Two virologists discuss...

Phase 2 of the hydroxychloroquine debacle, and did Covid come out of a lab?

White storks have hatched in the UK for the first time in half a millennium...

A narrow wavelength of UV light could help in the fight against coronavirus...

How do we know about the incidence of Covid-19? And what progress has been made towards a vaccine...

Goats can follow human pointing gestures; we kid you not...

Many believe care homes have been ignored during the pandemic so far - with disastrous consequences...

Progress in vaccine trials, and the longevity of immune responses to Covid-19...

Results from the coronavirus symptom tracker app, rethinking the office aircon, covid in pregnancy, and safe public...

Will SARS-CoV-2 continue to circulate for years to come?

Are ring-tailed lemurs using odour to communicate with mates?

The 'myc' gene, linked to most human cancers, unexpectedly turns out to help heart cells divide...

Experts acknowledge that you probably can't catch Covid-19 again, at least in the short term...