Marvels of life and death

As fish farming impacts grow, a look at some clever life-hacks at the extremes.

• 36 mins

Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities

Does the famous Betelgeuse have an orbiting companion, hidden in plain sight?

• 35 mins

Global warming strikes again

The devastating floods around Valencia are easily attributable to climate change.

• 33 mins

New ways to study coronaviruses

Scientists in Wuhan and the US unveil a new way to design virus receptors on human cells.

• 29 mins

Drastic plastic reductions

Machine learning models suggest pathways to reduce global plastic waste by 91% by 2050.

• 31 mins

Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms

Every 2024 Atlantic hurricane was intensified by warming climate, with categories raised.

• 34 mins

Fifty years of Charm

Why November 1974 became known as the “November Revolution” in particle physics

• 39 mins

Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans

How a single mutation in bovine H5N1 flu can make it prefer human cells.

• 33 mins

Warming oceans kill millions of birds

4 million sea birds died in Alaska as a result of a warming pacific.

• 33 mins

Sun Grazing

The future of vaccinations, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, and the dawn of complex life.

• 26 mins