Drought likely to follow India’s floods

Despite extreme rainfall, climate scientists predict drought in India within months.

• 30 mins

From batteries to distant worlds

Nobel Prize wins for a range of well-known discoveries

• 29 mins

Malaria's origins and a potential new treatment

How malaria jumped from great apes to humans and why Antarctica may hold a new treatment

• 29 mins

Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?

Has a new era of computing finally arrived or not, or is it both at the same time?

• 37 mins

Wildfires and winds in California

How dry land and high winds are fuelling fires in California

• 26 mins

Climate in crisis

Inaction on climate change while the impact of air pollution is likened to smoking

• 29 mins

Australia burning

To what extent is ‘Bush fire weather’ influenced by climate change?

• 29 mins

Politics and Amazonia’s fires

Satellite data shows this year’s Amazon fires have been the worst since 2010.

• 27 mins

New malaria target

Molecular research opens the way to prevent antimalarial resistance

• 29 mins

CRISPR babies scandal – more details

Evidence for a series of scientific and ethical errors have emerged

• 35 mins

White Island volcano eruption

Why a small eruption on White Island was so dangerous

• 26 mins

Understanding the Anak Krakatau eruption

How a relative small volcanic eruption caused a tsunami

• 26 mins

Gaming climate change

Can a role-playing game improve climate negotiation outcomes?

• 26 mins

Adapting California

Living with the threat of fires and earthquakes.

• 26 mins

Australia’s extreme fire season

2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires

• 26 mins

Mount Taal volcano

Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning

• 26 mins

New Coronavirus

What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China

• 26 mins

Understanding the new coronavirus

Analysis of the impact of the new virus

• 33 mins

Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?

Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?

• 26 mins

CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak

A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading

• 26 mins

Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk

Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk

• 26 mins

Tracking coronavirus spread

More new cases of Covid-19 are now outside China than inside - how can we map the virus?

• 30 mins

Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change

Fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate.

• 30 mins

Covid -19 how infectious is it really?

The pattern of transmission and prospects for drug treatments.

• 38 mins

Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?

Research from Italy and China, shows many people have the coronavirus but no symptoms

• 32 mins

The science of social distancing

Why staying home is the best defence against Covid -19

• 29 mins

Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins

As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19?

• 32 mins

Covid 19 - the threat to refugees

The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps

• 26 mins

Italy, getting Covid-19 under control

Tentative steps to relax the lockdown

• 32 mins

Presidents and pandemics

Why they don’t mix

• 43 mins