22 Apr: Syrian anti-aircraft missile lands near Israeli nuclear site
22 Apr: Pfizer confirms fake vaccine shots on sale in Mexico, Poland: reports
23 Apr: Irish scientist heads team behind malaria vaccine hailed as breakthrough
23 Apr: Chernobyl radiation damage ‘not passed to children’
27 Apr: France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara
10 May: Sinopharm: Chinese Covid vaccine gets WHO emergency approval
10 May: Missing Siberian doctor who treated Kremlin critic Navalny reappears after 3 days
11 May: CIA’s misleading inoculation drive led to vaccine decline in Pakistan
12 May: Covid: Serious failures in WHO and global response, report finds
13 May: Covid: The race against the variants
19 May: NAO: Covid: Government criticised over pre-pandemic planning
22 May: Testing and sequencing of sewage ramped up to help tackle COVID-19 outbreaks
23 May: Ward at Morriston Hospital set for £2m overhaul to destroy bacteria colony
24 May: UN nuclear watchdog says it has agreed with Iran to extend monitoring agreement for one month
29 May: Vietnam says new Covid variant is hybrid of India and UK strains
30 May: Kumbh Mela: how a super-spreader festival seeded Covid across India
01 Jun: Biosecurity warning over loosely-regulated virus labs
01 Jun: Larne man admits charge linked to dissident weapons haul found in forest
01 Jun: China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu
04 Jun: Covid vaccines: How fast is progress around the world?
04 Jun: X-Press Pearl: Sri Lanka braces for environmental disaster as ship sinks
05 Jun: Belgium’s Van Ranst: Covid scientist targeted by a far-right sniper
Technology:
19 Apr: DARPA Selects Teams to Defend Against Chemical, Biological Threats from Inside and Out
23 Apr: The mRNA revolution: How COVID-19 hit fast-forward on an experimental technology
26 Apr: Skin and bones repaired by bioprinting during surgery
04 May: ‘Last resort’ antibiotic pops bacteria like balloons
06 May: How the skin’s immune system cells coordinate defense against threats
10 May: Molecular tweezers that attack antibiotic resistant bacteria developed by Ben-Gurion University
11 May: Researchers Discovered a Gut Microbiota Profile That Can Predict Mortality
11 May: New drug target makes superbugs choke on their own toxic molecules
12 May: New material can protect against resistant bacteria
13 May: Ingredient in Common Weed Killer Impairs Insect Immune Systems, Study Suggests
19 May: How Israel’s Iron Dome Defence System Works
23 May: Forgotten Cyprus hero who eradicated island’s malaria
25 May: For men, low testosterone means high risk of severe COVID-19
26 May: Polymer ‘wafers’ placed under the tongue could deliver vaccines of the future
28 May: Getting COVID-19 after vaccination is incredibly rare, CDC report finds