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…
Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking
‘The whole aim of practical politics,’ wrote H.L. Mencken, ‘is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be…
Ignore the global warming hysteria: hurricanes are not getting worse
When I land on the east coast of America, people tell me they’ve never met a Trump voter. When I…
The eradication of South Georgia’s rats proves we can do anything – even Brexit
The extermination of every single one of South Georgia’s rats, for the sake of its birds, was confirmed at a…
Even if we could create genius ‘designer’ babies, there’s no demand for them
Christmas Day marks the birthday of one of the most gifted human beings ever born. His brilliance was of a…
America would never join anything like the EU. Yet they urge us to stay
America is urging Britain to stay in the European Union. But it would never dream of joining a comparable organisation
Ernest Shackleton and other South Georgia ghosts
The terrible news that Henry Worsley had died just 30 miles short of crossing the Antarctic continent unsupported reached me…
The climate change agenda is a conspiracy against the poor
In trying to protect ‘our grandchildren’ from climate change, politicians are hurting the poor. They shouldn’t
‘Quitting is suffering’: Hon Lik, inventor of the e-cigarette, on why he did it
Hon Lik, life-saving inventor of the e-cigarette, on why he did it
Matt Ridley’s diary: Why a Guardian contributor wants me beheaded
Martin Williams, former head of the government’s air quality science unit, has declared that the reason we have a problem…
Now remember August 1714
Some reasons to remember this week’s other great anniversary: the accession of George I
