Warm-blooded animals are changing beaks, legs and ears to adapt to hotter climate and better regulate temperatureAnimals are increasingly “shapeshifting” because of the climate crisis, researchers have said.Warm-blooded animals are changing their physi…
‘You’re not geriatric at 35’: women on the eggs, embryos and sperm storage limit increase
The rise to a 55-year limit has been welcomed, but some have concerns about the impact on childrenThe 10-year storage limit for freezing embryos, eggs and sperm will be replaced with a right for individuals or couples to keep them for up to a maximum o…
Ohio judge reverses court order forcing hospital to treat Covid patient with ivermectin
Judge cites lack of ‘convincing evidence’ that drug is effective, siding with hospital that refused to administer medicationAn Ohio judge has reversed a court order that forced a local hospital to treat a Covid-19 patient with the anti-parasitic drug i…
No 10 not ruling out ‘firebreak’ lockdown if Covid cases rise
Government denies plan for October half-term lockdown but says option remains open if NHS overwhelmedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDowning Street has not ruled out a “firebreak” lockdown as a last resort if the NHS were to…
The Space Force is starting to lean into innovative launch concepts
“The biggest threat to our success is moving too slowly and refusing to change.”
Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems
Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has built a platform to help with this challenge specifically in the area of life sciences — and has, notably, been used by labs to sequence […]
Why does the sound of running water make us want to pee?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhy do many of us have the tendency to want, or need, to pee when we hear runnin…
UK orders national security review of graphene firm’s takeover by Chinese scientist
Watchdog to look at potential takeover of Wales-based Perpetuus Group by Dr Zhongfu Zhou or Taurus InternationalBusiness secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has ordered a national security review of a takeover by a Chinese academic of a small Welsh manufacturer o…
As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers | David LV Bauer
A news interview I did was re-edited and misquoted by online conspiracy theorists. My advice is: get the vaccineDavid LV Bauer is head of the RNA virus replication laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in LondonAs a virologist, I’ve spent the past …
Constructed Worlds, Group Beliefs and Narrative Consciousness
Three Simple Policy Heuristics – “The most important thing to understand is this: Harm ripples, kindness ripples. People you hurt go on to hurt other people. People who are treated with kindness become better people, or more prosperous people, and go o…