Bird flu (H5N1) outbreak in mink

A review of the first mammal to mammal transmission of avian flu, observed in Spain

• 51 mins

Science on ice

The different forms of frozen water from ice made in labs to Jupiter’s icy moons

• 53 mins

Turkey-Syria earthquake

Turkey’s most powerful earthquake on record

• 53 mins

CRISPR & bioethics

He Jiankui refuses to talk about his controversial genome editing of twin babies in 2018.

• 55 mins

Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar

Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar and threatens Mozambique and South Africa.

• 64 mins

Drought worsens in East Africa

Why the long rains in East Africa are forecast to fail again.

• 59 mins

Human genome editing: Promise and Peril

What are the benefits and limitations of gene editing?

• 61 mins

Return of Cyclone Freddy

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

• 61 mins

Animals at the Wuhan Market

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

• 77 mins

Coronation exploration

Why are rituals so important to humans - and why do they often involve precious objects?

• 50 mins

Co-operation and cohesion

Social cohesion, cellular cohesion and glue. Science stories inspired by election news

• 53 mins

Signals, seaweed and space

The anniversary of the telegraph sparks an unexpected conversation about bioelectricity.

• 50 mins

Migrate ideas

The science behind migration, a wall of wind and the real life human labour supporting AI

• 49 mins

Collapsing pensions and civilisations

French pension protests lead us to the lifespans of people, naked mole rats and societies

• 50 mins

Wildfires and wild animals

Smog in North America leads us to conservationists using air pollution to track animals.

• 50 mins

Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces

Why does pollen make us sick, what it tells us about the past; and a look at snot palaces

• 50 mins

Predictions from the sky and murderous fish

Celebrations of Eid send us on a science-filled odyssey to the stars.

• 50 mins

Unexpected elements on the sea bed

The team discover mysterious potato shaped nodules and hydroelectric power in your garden

• 50 mins

Nato and the left-handed universe

Nato’s summit has us considering decision-making and the balance of the universe

• 50 mins

Barbie in Space

How Barbie is helping humans return to the moon, and is the colour pink actually real?

• 50 mins

Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot

Why do teenagers share passwords so often?

• 50 mins

The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas

The unexpected science of the World Cup and are banana skins hallucinogenic?

• 50 mins

Some of our universe is missing

Could science help trace Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the missing gas in the cosmos?

• 53 mins

Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option

Can scientific thinking detect political and corporate corruption?

• 50 mins

The man who couldn’t lie

Why do we believe in conspiracy theories, and what’s going on in our brains when we lie?

• 50 mins

Protecting the Moon

India's lunar landing has us looking at unexpected science around the moon

• 50 mins

Zombies, cows and coups

The wasp that turns cockroaches into zombies and the science hiding behind coups

• 53 mins

Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days

As oceans take the heat for global warming, fish find it harder to learn their way.

• 50 mins

Can technology read our mind?

The UN General Assembly has us examining how our brains process language

• 50 mins

How inflation affects the entire cosmos

The science behind news about inflation leads us to the first moments of the universe.

• 50 mins