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Mutations of SARS2 are roaming. Currently there are 19 million active (known) cases of Covid. Due to copying errors, mistakes are accumulating in the genes of the virus. It’s a relentless process of trial and selection....

China has become the Wild West of bio-research The Z man spots a repeat cycle of knowledge-hauls as China siphons off Western intellectual property, often with the help of the West...

We all could use some good news, and this is quite extraordinary.

The first case of a definitive reinfection was reported today Before we look at whether a cold gives us protection let’s point out we don’t know how well a SARS 2 infection gives us protection...

International architecture and urban design practice CHYBIK + KRISTOF has unveiled designs for an energy-efficient greenhouse to commemorate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and Augustinian friar regarded as the founder of the...

Two different models predict two totally different futures. On the left, catastrophic extinction. On the right, happy bats. Click to enlarge Yesterday a UN supercommittee of 145 scientists from 50 countries declared that...

He Jiankui has now presented his controversial work at a gene editing summit in Hong Kong. CRISPR expert Helen O’Neill of University College London was there

The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago

Here’s a tantalizing bit of gene research. Scientists were able to switch off a central gene in the nucleus of a mouse cell. That in turn meant the mouse’s mitochondria started failing (I’m going to be talking...

Five years ago, millions of sea stars off the west coast of North America were killed by a mysterious virus that caused the animals to lose limbs and liquefy, with several species under serious threat of extinction...

There were domestic dogs in North America 10,200 years ago, according to a re-examination of an ancient dog skeleton that looks like a small English setter

… After half a billion million years of climate change, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that life on Earth (and specifically corals) have so many ways to cope with the climate changing. After all, it’s...

We know almost nothing about the enormous beaked whales because they spend so much time deep underwater, but a new DNA technique could unmask them

Researchers spent four years looking for Chinese giant salamanders and only found 24 – and that’s not even the worst bit of news

All the green-blooded lizards in the world live in New Guinea, but it turns out the trait has evolved there independently at least four times