Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril

Human Genome Editing: curing genetic disease and ensuring it's safe and available to all.

• 34 mins

Return of Cyclone Freddy

Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy devastates Mozambique for the second time in one month.

• 32 mins

Animals at the Wuhan Market

What does animal DNA from the Wuhan Market reveal about the start of the pandemic?

• 31 mins

Gene editing breakthrough

New technique to correct gene errors in sick patients

• 33 mins

Chasing tornados in the American mid-West

Chasing tornados in the American mid-West – the science behind the current outbreaks.

• 30 mins

Bird flu: The global threat

H5N1 avian flu is racing across the world. What can be done to control it?

• 31 mins

Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

• 28 mins

The truth about the Sudan biolab

Khartoum’s National Public Health Laboratory is caught up in the Sudanese conflict.

• 32 mins

Darwin dumped from Indian classrooms

The exclusion of Darwinism from the curriculum prompts protests in India

• 30 mins

Human genome goes global

The Pangenome project captures human diversity with 47 new genomes

• 27 mins

Return of the Wildfires

The record-breaking heat behind the destructive North American wildfires

• 29 mins

Brightest supernova in a decade

The brightest supernova in a decade springs astronomers around the world into action

• 27 mins

Vaccinating condors against bird flu

Endangered condors are being vaccinated to save them from deadly H5N1 bird flu

• 27 mins

The beginnings of us

New molecular fossil records shed evidence on the billion-year-old roots of modern life

• 28 mins

Oceans in hot water?

A major El Niño is building and heating up the world. What is the forecast?

• 28 mins

Human embryo models

Scientists have made human embryo models – or “synthetic embryos” - in the lab.

• 26 mins

Preparing for crises

We have entered a state of multiple and entangled crises. How can research help?

• 28 mins

Melting of Greenland ice sheet

Record-breaking global temperatures are accelerating Greenland ice melt

• 26 mins

Europe’s heatwave death toll

Around 62,000 people died in last year's European heatwave - is this the new normal?

• 26 mins

On the edge of a new volcano

A spectacular volcanic eruption hits Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula for the third year

• 26 mins

Ocean current collapse

Is the collapse of large system of ocean currents imminent?

• 26 mins

Bird Flu is back

H5N1 bird flu is spreading to seabirds, mammals, and household pets

• 29 mins

Pandemic surveillance system at risk

One of the most useful scientific tools you’ve never heard of is being paywalled

• 26 mins

The science behind the Hawaii fire

The science behind the devastating fires that have consumed Lahaina in Hawaii.

• 29 mins

Brain-computer interfaces

Brain to speech translation allows patients to communicate faster and more expressively.

• 29 mins

Drowning coastal ecosystems

Coastal ecosystems around the world are at risk of disappearing as sea levels rise

• 28 mins

Returning to the North Pole

Ice breaker Polarstern returns to the Arctic visiting sites last explored in 2012.

• 27 mins

Deadly floods in Derna

Devastating floods have swept away the banks of Derna, Libya. How did this happen?

• 26 mins

More likely, more intense

Extreme flooding in Libya 50 times more likely and 50% more intense due to climate change

• 28 mins

Trilobite dinner

What did a 465-million-year-old trilobite eat for dinner? And how can we possibly know?

• 27 mins