Noah Baker

The Nature Podcast team have rewritten a popular holiday song in light of one of the biggest science stories of 2024.

Can jets of drugs from pressurized capsules replace needles?

High-speed footage shows tiny insects using a physics trick, to avoid drowning in their own pee

An AI-assisted robot, could use Martian rock to autonomously generate oxygen on the red planet

We discuss the USA’s decision to authorise the Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines for children under five

As researchers zero in on the causes of smell loss after SARS-CoV-2 infection, we ask how they might be able to revive it

How research could help reclaim months of lost education for billions of school students around the world

Some countries managed to suppressed COVID for years, but are now facing huge outbreaks in the face of vaccine complacency

Scientists say that now is the time to improve COVID data, not cut it back

Pharmaceutical companies have declined to license their COVID vaccines, so South African scientists have copied them instead

The assumption that endemic COVID represents a happy ending is misguided and even dangerous

The assumption that endemic COVID represents a happy ending is misguided and even dangerous

Measuring death is extremely difficult, but the latest estimates suggest the pandemic’s true death toll could be double or even quadruple official counts

We dig into the data on Omicron and answer your quetsions about the variant that could change the game

Vaccines can provide vital protection from COVID-19, but what about long COVID?

Millions of calls to helplines are helping paint a picture of mental health during the pandemic

Two antiviral drugs could change the course of the pandemic, but scientists still have questions

Two inactivated virus vaccines from China account for half the world’s inoculations against COVID, now their protection may be waning.

As the Olympics kick off, data on the impact of large sporting events is still limited, despite large research efforts

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 14 July 2021