Bird flu... are we hatching the next pandemic?

What the scientists are saying… Falling puffin numbers ...

ON A FRIDAY MORNING IN OCTOBER, ABOUT 100 high school and college students gathered in a Utah ballroom to play a game. Some students were assigned specific roles and given costumes to wear. “Governmen

Keepers at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia have noticed a fashion trend spreading among groups of chimpanzees living there – sticking strands of grass in their ears or rectums, and just le

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm

The lasting legacy of the lockdown PC hardware boom

H&H news editor Eleanor Jones recaps this year’s big stories, and assesses what lies ahead in 2026