Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins

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

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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

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Presidents and pandemics

Why they don’t mix

• 43 mins

Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19

Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery

• 48 mins

Covid -19 new hope from blood tests

Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19

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Loosening lockdown

Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.

• 37 mins

Covid-19 vaccines

More than a hundred vaccines are in development to fight the virus

• 31 mins

Brazil’s Covid chaos

The number of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show

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The medical complexity of Covid -19

Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart

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Food security, locusts and Covid -19

Efforts to eradicate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic

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Covid -19 hope for severe cases

A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful

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Record high temperatures – in the Arctic

Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit

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Covid -19 and Children

Why a minority become gravely ill is still a mystery

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Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test

African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method

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How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?

New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.

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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people

The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.

• 34 mins

NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake

NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars

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Counting the heat health threat from climate change

Huge death toll from rising temperatures projected for century’s end.

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Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine

Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine.

• 37 mins

Trouble in Greenland

Has the loss from Greenland’s vast ice sheet reached a tipping point?

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Covid-19 therapy controversy

Is convalescent plasma really a ‘tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19?

• 38 mins

Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?

More than 2 million people live around this volcano, which has become more active

• 31 mins

Covid -19 science versus politics

Are the politicians finally coming round to the scientist’s views on the way forward?

• 38 mins

Malaria resistance breakthrough

Discovered in East Africa, the finding holds promise for completely new treatments.

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Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission

They are only designed to prevent disease developing, none have been tested against spread

• 41 mins

Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?

The world’s largest study of Covid-19 transmission shows children have a major role.

• 37 mins

Do Covid–19 mutations matter?

Results from the most detailed investigation to date into SARS –CoV-2 virus mutations

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Covid-19 mortality

Why is there such a range in the number of deaths from Covid -19 between countries?

• 35 mins

Nasa probe Osiris Rex lands on asteroid

Osiris Rex probe touches asteroid Bennu to sample secrets of the early solar system

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Osiris Rex stows asteroid material

Successful closure of lid on Osiris Rex spacecraft

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Coronavirus spreads from mink to humans

What does transmission of coronavirus from mink to humans mean for the future vaccine?

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Covid-19 defeats US Marines

The virus spread amongst recruits despite a range of thorough precautions

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Covid- 19 – Good news on immunity

After infection or vaccination immunity to the virus may be long lasting

• 35 mins

Vaccines – the Covid confusion

The problems with incomplete or contradictory trial data published by press release.

• 31 mins

Freak weather getting even freakier

This year has seen record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, and now an Australian heatwave

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The unchecked spread of Covid-19 in Manaus

Around three-quarters of the Brazilian city’s population are thought to have been infected

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Covid -19 – Mutations are normal

Viral mutations happen all the time but we still need to be wary of their impact.

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A year with Covid -19

Looking back on how the virus emerged and the scientific response

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Coping with Covid

Making sense of a year of confusion

• 26 mins

New variants of SARS-Cov2

SARS-Cov2: UK and South African new variants

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Gravitational waves and black holes

Gravitational waves from colliding supermassive black holes

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Saving the Northern White Rhino

Bringing back the Northern White Rhino from extinction

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New Covid vaccine

Next-generation of RNA vaccine

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Mixing Covid vaccines

Can Covid vaccines be mixed?

• 29 mins

Perseverance approaches Mars

How Perseverance will land on Mars

• 33 mins

Weird weather

Why is there snow in Texas?

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Waste not, want not

Novel recycling to make new products

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Uncovering history with Little Foot's skull

Neanderthal hearing, CO2 emissions in 2020, the Brazilian variant and scanning Little Foot

• 26 mins

A shooting star parked on your driveway

A rare type of meteorite lands next to a rural UK house, and is now in professional hands

• 34 mins

International science at sea

International research collaborations feel the pinch of UK cap on development spending

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Science on the side of a new volcano

Fagradalsfjall, hints of leptoquark, and the 2020 rise of the preprint

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Post-Covid outcomes after release from hospital

A third of people hospitalised for covid are readmitted sometime after discharge.

• 36 mins

On the trail of rare blood clots

Scientists in the EU and the UK are looking out for rare blood clots in vaccinated people.

• 33 mins

Rolling out the vaccines faster

Can more money speed up rollout?

• 45 mins

Exponential increase in Indian covid cases

What’s behind the soaring numbers?

• 47 mins

Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan

Melting glaciers, warming coffee and a Dragonfly on Titan.

• 37 mins

Africa’s oldest burial

A fossilised child reveals an ancient caring society

• 28 mins

Covid and clean air

How improving indoor air quality can prevent illness from many viruses

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