Turkish firm contradicts Downing Street assurances about PPE fiascoCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTurkish officials and the company at the centre of the decision by the NHS to impound 400,000 unusable protective gowns have claimed they are yet to receive a complaint or demand for a refund from the health service.Their statements seemingly contradicted assurances made...

Study based on small number of patients opens up chance of sexual transmissionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChinese researchers who tested the sperm of men infected with Covid-19 found a minority had the new coronavirus in their semen, opening up a small chance the disease could be sexually transmitted, scientists have said.A study by doctors at China’s Shangqiu...

Researchers say cannibalistic tendency may help explain why the invasive creatures thriveWhen the going gets tough, most parents try to protect their offspring. But the warty comb jelly takes a different tack: it eats them.Despite initial appearances, comb jellies are not jellyfish but belong to a different group of animals, ctenophora, which swim using tiny hair-like projections called cilia....

Latest figures from public health authorities on the spread of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom. Find out how many confirmed cases have been reported in each of England’s local authoritiesCoronavirus - live news updatesFind all our coronavirus coverage hereHow to protect yourself from infectionPlease note: these are government figures on numbers of confirmed cases - some people who report symptoms...

Eindhoven rector says he wants to improve representation among engineering academicsOne of Europe’s leading engineering universities is being investigated over claims of unfair sexual discrimination after it increased its cohort of female academics by 25% through opening its vacancies exclusively to women.Eindhoven University of Technology has been asked by the Dutch Institute for Human Rights...

Handing out contracts out to firms like Serco and G4S is now second nature to those in power. We need to rebuild state capacityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus pandemic has revealed a lot about British society – the fragility of the economy, the insecure situation so many workers find themselves in – but it has also shone a light on the state...

Care providers say government did not discuss key Exercise Cygnus concerns with themCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA secret government report that said the UK was not prepared for a pandemic and forewarned of the Covid-19 crisis in care homes is being published by the Guardian.The report is based on the findings of a government simulation of an influenza pandemic,...

The filmmaker’s latest venture is an excruciating mishmash of environment falsehoods and plays into the hands of those he once opposedDenial never dies; it just goes quiet and waits. Today, after years of irrelevance, the climate science deniers are triumphant. Long after their last, desperate claims had collapsed, when they had traction only on “alt-right” conspiracy sites, a hero of the...

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to be our focus on Science Weekly, we also want to try look at other science stories. In this episode, Nicola Davis speaks to Dave Krause about the 66-million-year-old fossil of a cat-sized mammal dubbed ‘crazy beast’. A giant in its day, we hear how this now extinct branch of mammals – known as Gondwanatherians – offers new insights into what could...

ONS says risk of death significantly higher among some ethnic groups than others; Johnson to chair cabinet meeting on lockdown measuresFull report: black people more likely to die from Covid-19, ONS findsPPE: all 400,000 gowns flown in from Turkey for NHS fail UK standardsCoronavirus latest: at a glanceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 10.55am BST The ONS has also...

Official figures show that wide disparity not just due to health and economic differences Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBlack people are more than four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, according to stark official figures exposing a dramatic divergence in the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in England and Wales.The Office of National...

Some weeks ago my main worries were around my GCSEs. Now I hear every day about deaths from Covid-19Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt is the sixth week of lockdown, and for many people things are getting progressively more intense. Most families are physically distancing at home. People are only leaving the house for their weekly shop – and spending a lot of that...