

Superbugs have an arsenal of defences — but we've found a new way around them
We found a new way to revert antibiotic resistance. It involves using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics.
11/01/2021 The Conversation
Despite the ongoing pandemic good things happen every month. Hence in the tradition of the year in review we like to remind you of three randomly selected news articles of each month.
We found a new way to revert antibiotic resistance. It involves using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics.
11/01/2021 The Conversation
When it comes to microplastics, there’s rarely good news. Researchers continue to find the tiny plastic fragments everywhere they look.
18/02/2021 The Guardian
People who volunteer report higher levels of wellbeing, greater life satisfaction and less depression. But your motivation can impact how happy helping makes you feel.
04/02/2021 Deutsche Welle
In spring the air in Seville is sweet with the scent of azahar, orange blossom, but the 5.7m kilos of bitter fruit the city’s 48,000 trees deposit on the streets in winter are a hazard for pedestrians and a headache for the city’s cleaning…
23/02/2021 The Guardian
Malaria is a leading cause of death for children and is most prevalent in some of the world's poorest countries. A new lure-and-kill style device trial shows potential for a major drop in malaria-spreading mosquitoes.
04/03/2021 Deutsche Welle
The country’s efforts to reduce the loss of tropical forests will have an impact not just domestically but for the whole world
14/04/2021 The Independent
After years of struggling to breathe and fearing she might suffocate in her sleep, Sonia Sein says she feels well enough to dance around with her grandchildren after undergoing the first-ever human trachea transplant at Mount Sinai in New York.
07/04/2021 CNN
The end of generations of fishermen off the coast of South Korea could be contentious but many are coming to terms with it, knowing carbon neutrality is absolutely necessary, writes Heesu Lee and Will Mathis
09/04/2021 The Independent
Mined diamonds have been tainted by ethical concerns, and Pandora will now use only ones made in labs.
04/05/2021 Al Jazeera
When Aldous Huxley emerged from a mescaline trip that veered from an obsession with the folds in his trousers to wonder at the “miraculous” tubularity of the bamboo legs on his garden chairs, he offered an opinion on how the drug worked.
19/05/2021 The Guardian
More and more employers are trying to increase the diversity of their staff – and rightly so. A recent report from management consulting firm McKinsey found that greater diversity within an organisation leads to greater productivity and profit, and…
19/05/2021 The Conversation
Oregon has become the third state in the US to legalise a new end-of-life process of human composting or “natural organic reduction” of the human body.
18/06/2021 The Independent
The activist hedge fund behind ExxonMobil’s boardroom coup last week has claimed another seat from the oil giant’s board, to take the number of new directors who will push for climate action from within the company to three.
04/06/2021 The Guardian
Just organizing a meeting of 130 people is hard. Getting that number of governments to agree on a corporate tax regime is an astonishing achievement. That makes a new deal, whose signatories account for more than 90% of world GDP, worth celebrating…
01/07/2021 Reuters
When authoritarian regimes clamp down on freedoms, academics are often the first targets. Now, suppressed academics have teamed with international universities to create a platform that allows their voice to continue to be heard.
16/07/2021 Reset.org
Conventional electric street lights not only use up energy - they're also a source of light pollution, affect local biodiversity and can reduce quality of life for city dwellers. A new design for a wind- powered, motion-detecting street light might…
15/07/2021 Reset.org
While Germany mulls over better solutions for a climate-friendly future, one northern village has already made the transition. And its residents say the benefits are worth every penny. A visit to Sprakebüll.
02/08/2021 Deutsche Welle
A genetic “Swiss army knife” has been created which could treat incurable hereditary diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anaemia and Parkinson’s. The technology is an improvement on the ground-breaking Crispr gene-editing procedure first…
03/09/2021 Telegraph
Researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a development that could revolutionize medicine.
30/10/2021 The Japan Times
After more than a year of lockdowns, with limited access to nature, Magdalena Begh was delighted when her six-year-old daughter came home from forest school and informed her she had found three rat skeletons.
31/10/2021 The Guardian
The world as we knew it is coming to an end, and it’s up to us how it ends and what comes after. It’s the end of the age of fossil fuel, but if the fossil-fuel corporations have their way the ending will be delayed as long as possible, with as…
18/11/2021 The Guardian
A woman from Argentina appears to have rid herself of HIV without drugs or treatment - the second documented case of its kind in the world. Doctors believe the patient's immune system cleared the virus on its own.
16/11/2021 BBC
The NHS vaccination programme to prevent cervical cancer has so far stopped thousands of women from developing the disease and experiencing pre-cancerous changes to cells, a study has found.
04/11/2021 The Guardian
Puerto Rico was once a thriving agricultural hub thanks to its tropical climate, rich biodiversity, and sustainable farming traditions.
23/12/2021 The Guardian