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Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn’t ...
A vaccine for strep A may not be very profitable for pharmaceutical companies and there are technica...
Gout linked to 376 genetic variants in a study of ...
As well as being caused by eating an indulgent diet, gout has been linked to hundreds of genetic var...
Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by ...
Nuclear fusion, infectious diseases and an incredible new space telescope were ongoing stories in 20...
COP15: Countries debate how to share profits from ...
The question of how best to share revenues from products developed using genetic data from plants an...
Twin planets orbiting a distant star may be half w...
A pair of twin planets called Kepler-138 c and d appear to be water worlds, with steamy atmospheres ...
COP15: China calls for action as biodiversity talk...
Negotiations at the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal broke down over how to fund new agreements...
Watch this robot bird use a talon-like claw to lan...
A talon-like claw with sharp ends and a softer middle helps this flying robot grasp onto thin perche...
Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to...
Geese chased out of a park in Chicago returned to the area twice as quickly on days when they were h...
Personalised melanoma vaccines prolong survival in...
People who received a personalised melanoma skin cancer vaccine on top of a standard treatment were ...
A noisy flashing drone could stop bats crashing in...
A drone equipped with lights and speakers can deter bats from wind farms to protect them from potent...
Drinking more alcohol after a traumatic event may ...
It has long been believed that PTSD increases the risk for excess drinking, but in some cases it may...
Melting sounds of an entire glacier recorded for t...
A 9-kilometre fibre-optic cable that captured the sounds of melting ice across an entire glacier cou...
Nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally ...
World Health Organization research suggests that during just the first two years of the pandemic, 14...
Your gut bacteria may influence how motivated you ...
A study conducted in mice suggests certain gut bacteria can regulate motivation to exercise by incre...
Tropical forests ravaged by logging can still have...
Logged forests in Borneo have more abundant birds and mammals than pristine forests, showing that co...
Puzzling methane rise in 2020 linked to pandemic l...
A spike in the greenhouse gas methane in 2020 may be explained in part by a drop in nitrogen oxide e...
How well do you know your animal poo? Find out wit...
Can you match these pictures of poo to the animal responsible? This quiz from naturalist Chris Packh...
Toughest material ever is an alloy of chromium, co...
An alloy made of almost equal amounts of chromium, cobalt and nickel resists fracturing even at incr...
