Category: Science

Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may ha...

Black and Indigenous people and people of colour are more at risk from covid-19, and new modelling suggests that prioritising vacc...

Japan 2011 earthquake and tsunami linked to increased r...

People aged 65 years or over who lost their homes in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami typically saw an increase in their rate...

Covid-19 news: Study finds benefits of teen vaccination...

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...

Limiting warming to 1.5°C may save billions from tropic...

Between 2015 and 2100, if the world follows a 1.5°C global warming trajectory instead of a 3.1°C one it would mean 1.8 billion few...

Germany’s new coalition government may boost climate ch...

Against a backdrop of climate change protests across German cities, the centre-left Social Democratic party narrowly won the elect...

Oxygen and water for lunar explorers can be extracted f...

A device that bakes moon rocks to temperatures above 1000°C can efficiently extract water and oxygen from the dirt, which could be...

Weird hybrid meteorite may be evidence of a chaotic ear...

Jupiter’s early orbit had a wobble that may have flung asteroids from the inner and outer solar system into each other, creating h...

Mystery of ancient burrows older than earliest animals ...

Ancient animal burrows in rocks once thought to be 1.2 billion years old have been re-examined, and were likely made 40 to 50 mill...

Antarctic seal numbers rose and fell with climate over ...

DNA suggests the Antarctic fur seal population has grown and shrunk as the climate has warmed and cooled, and this might help pred...

AI is helping US Air Force to decide which targets to s...

The US Air Force has used an AI as part of its "kill chain" - the process of gathering intelligence and directing weapons to destr...

Spacecraft could detect signs of life on Saturn's moon ...

Plumes of water shot into space by Enceladus, the icy moon of Saturn, may contain molecular signs of alien life, and a spacecraft ...

Covid-19 news: Younger children in England less willing...

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...

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