In Short

Using the accelerometer in your phone to tell you if you're over the driving limit

How a specific gene is regulated effects how likely you are to develop PTSD

What are the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic?

Nerves that make hair stand on end send messages to make hair grow

Although giant pandas are no longer endangered, their reserves have seen big carnivores almost disappear...

Human sperm shown to be successful wonky swimmers

With construction starting of the International Thermonuclear Experimental fusion Reactor, the world has taken a step...

In early August, the UK stepped back from some of the proposed lockdown easing measures...

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...