Wow! A mystery signal solved

In 1977 astronomers recorded a strange radio transmission, perhaps even from aliens.

• 29 mins

Concerning viruses found in fur farmed animals

A survey of diseased animals from fur farms has revealed potentially threatening viruses

• 30 mins

A landslide-induced megatsunami in Greenland

The 200-metre-high tsunami sloshed between the cliffs of Dickson Fjord for nine days

• 29 mins

Flash floods in the Sahara

The Sahara has been experiencing unusually heavy rainfall due to an extratropical cyclone

• 26 mins

Historic weather extremes revealed using tree-rings

The jet stream has shaped extreme weather, influencing harvests, wildfires and epidemics

• 26 mins

Excesses of rain

How much did climate change drive storm Helene?

• 34 mins

Nobel convergence

A look at the stories behind the Nobel science prizes announced this week.

• 38 mins

Marvels of life and death

As fish farming impacts grow, a look at some clever life-hacks at the extremes.

• 36 mins

Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities

Does the famous Betelgeuse have an orbiting companion, hidden in plain sight?

• 35 mins

Global warming strikes again

The devastating floods around Valencia are easily attributable to climate change.

• 33 mins

New ways to study coronaviruses

Scientists in Wuhan and the US unveil a new way to design virus receptors on human cells.

• 29 mins

Drastic plastic reductions

Machine learning models suggest pathways to reduce global plastic waste by 91% by 2050.

• 31 mins

Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms

Every 2024 Atlantic hurricane was intensified by warming climate, with categories raised.

• 34 mins

Fifty years of Charm

Why November 1974 became known as the “November Revolution” in particle physics

• 39 mins

Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans

How a single mutation in bovine H5N1 flu can make it prefer human cells.

• 33 mins

Warming oceans kill millions of birds

4 million sea birds died in Alaska as a result of a warming pacific.

• 33 mins

Sun Grazing

The future of vaccinations, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, and the dawn of complex life.

• 26 mins

Five years of Covid: Part one

Five years on from the emergence of Sars CoV-2, what have we learned?

• 28 mins

Five years of Covid: Part two

Five years on from the emergence of Sars CoV-2, what have we learned?

• 27 mins

First US avian flu fatality

H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the US and claims its first human life

• 30 mins

AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids

New types of snake-bite anti-venoms are designed by AI.

• 34 mins

Arctic carbon starting to flip

Thirty per cent of the Arctic is switching from carbon sink to carbon source.

• 26 mins

Make science great again

Asteroid Bennu yields a watery pool of history

• 40 mins

Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers

The mystery swarm of small earthquakes near the island of Santorini beg for more data

• 32 mins

Hits from space

Astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4 to decide if it will miss us in 2032.

• 36 mins

Who runs science?

A call from European flu experts to create a more sustainable research network.

• 36 mins

Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?

How astronomers minimised our asteroid angst, despite a threat to our darkest skies

• 36 mins

An uncertain forecast for meteorology

As US government cuts imperil weather data, meteorologists worldwide forecast trouble.

• 44 mins

New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses

WHO pandemic call, an H5N1 call to arms from global health leaders.

• 44 mins

Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"

Individual stories of those affected by the Trump administration's upheaval of science

• 28 mins