Letter from Kenya
My wife and I were lucky to escape for a long-delayed birdwatching holiday in Kenya over Christmas. To have been…
Don’t blame deforestation for the pandemic
With a laboratory leak in Wuhan looking more and more likely as the source of the Covid pandemic, the Chinese…
The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger
The lab leak theory just got even stronger
The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger
Two years in, there is no doubt the Covid pandemic began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. But there is…
China is using the climate as a bargaining chip
For China, the climate is a useful bargaining chip
Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins
Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins
A volte face over what caused the pandemic needs explaining
Sir Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust, writes that ‘the last year has been an eye-opener for me.…
Organic food isn’t better for us – or the environment
The case against organic food
The Covid lab leak theory is looking increasingly plausible
What was once a Covid conspiracy theory is looking more plausible
Britain is in danger of repeating its post-war mistakes
What we can learn from Britain’s rationing mistakes
Stresses and strains: the evolution of Covid is not random
The evolution of the virus is not random
Why mRNA vaccines could revolutionise medicine
Why mRNA vaccines could revolutionise medicine
Was Covid beginning to peak before the second lockdown?
‘I don’t think that word means what you think it means,’ says the Spaniard Inigo Montoya in the film The…
Temper your excitement about the Covid vaccine
Ever since Giacomo Pylarini, a physician working in the Ottoman Empire, sent a report to the Royal Society in 1701…
Students who catch Covid may be saving lives
Students who catch Covid may be saving lives by building up immunity
Could the key to Covid be found in the Russian pandemic?
What we can learn from the Russian flu pandemic
The growing evidence on vitamin D and Covid
The argument that vitamin D deficiency may contribute to more severe cases of Covid is gaining ground. It is now…
We know everything – and nothing – about Covid
There’s no such thing as ‘the science’ – but facts are emerging from the Covid fog
The contenders – and challenges – in the race to cure Covid
The contenders in the race to cure Covid
The curious age discrimination of coronavirus
Why does coronavirus affect the generations differently?
We are about to find out how robust civilisation is
I had believed this kind of infectious pandemic could not happen today
Why have so many of our recent viruses come from bats?
Why are they responsible for so many of our recent viruses?
Britain needs to rediscover failure if it wants to prosper
Britain needs to rediscover trial and error, serendipity and speed
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living…
The most dangerous thing about the Amazon fires is the apocalyptic rhetoric
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese expert on forests who also plays football, so when he shared a picture online of…
