Radioactive Red Forest

Are Russian troops in forests around Chernobyl receiving a dangerous dose of radiation?

• 29 mins

Tsunami detective in Tonga

What really happened in the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga in January?

• 34 mins

How ‘magic mushroom’ chemical treats depression

Brain scanning study reveals how psilocybin can help people with severe depression

• 30 mins

Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden

Solar geoengineering to curb climate change could worsen global malaria burden.

• 33 mins

The Indian subcontinent’s record-breaking heatwave

The Indian subcontinent is roasting in a prolonged heatwave. Is climate change to blame?

• 31 mins

Mekong Delta will sink beneath the sea by 2100

Vietnam’s vast Mekong Delta is set to sink beneath the sea by the end of the century

• 29 mins

Portrait of the monster black hole at our galaxy’s heart

Astronomers image the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy

• 29 mins

Death in the rainforest

Climate change may have doubled the death rate of rainforest trees over the last 50 years

• 29 mins

Heat death by volcano and other stories

New insights into Tonga’s cataclysmic volcanic eruption revealed

• 29 mins

Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?

Two recent subtypes of the Omicron virus are much better at evading our immune defences.

• 29 mins

Body scan reveals HIV's hideouts

A medical scan which reveals where HIV and other viruses hide in the body.

• 29 mins

Thirty years after the Earth Summit

Thirty years on, we ask what has the Earth Summit in Rio achieved?

• 29 mins

Monster microbe

Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.

• 34 mins

Extreme heat death risk in Latin America

New study reveals risk of death as temperatures rise in Latin American cities

• 32 mins

Long Covid ‘brain fog’

New insights into the cause of Long Covid ‘brain fog’

• 30 mins

First images from the James Webb Space Telescope

A sensational new view of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope.

• 31 mins

Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere

Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?

• 29 mins

The first galaxies at the universe's dawn

James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time

• 27 mins

Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts

Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells

• 29 mins

Icelandic volcano erupts again

Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption.

• 28 mins

Deadly drought

The gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought

• 28 mins

Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed

The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations

• 26 mins

The China heatwave and the new normal

The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere

• 28 mins

The genetics of human intelligence

A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development

• 26 mins

Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods

A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.

• 29 mins

Should we mine the deep sea?

A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.

• 26 mins

The final moments of DART

Reflections on NASA’s latest mission as it hits an asteroid 11 million km from earth

• 26 mins

Nobel Prize 2022: The science behind the winners

We meet the winners behind this week’s Nobel Prize announcements

• 30 mins

Inserting human neurons into the brains of rats

Fusing the brain of a human with a rat could offer insight into neurological disorders

• 31 mins

The most powerful explosion ever recorded

A celestial explosion has produced the brightest beam of light ever observed

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