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Do Covid–19 mutations matter?
Results from the most detailed investigation to date into SARS –CoV-2 virus mutations

Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?
The world’s largest study of Covid-19 transmission shows children have a major role.

Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission
They are only designed to prevent disease developing, none have been tested against spread

Malaria resistance breakthrough
Discovered in East Africa, the finding holds promise for completely new treatments.

Covid -19 science versus politics
Are the politicians finally coming round to the scientist’s views on the way forward?

Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?
More than 2 million people live around this volcano, which has become more active

Covid-19 therapy controversy
Is convalescent plasma really a ‘tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19?

Trouble in Greenland
Has the loss from Greenland’s vast ice sheet reached a tipping point?

Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine
Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine.

Counting the heat health threat from climate change
Huge death toll from rising temperatures projected for century’s end.