Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to need life support and die than patients who aren’t pregnant. Overall risk is still...

Evidence suggests vitamin D may help prevent severe coronavirus infection. Researchers say adding it to common foods could prevent...

Like the country as a whole, Oxford's Radcliffe weather station recorded an extremely wet...

A small but key UK study has found that "cellular immunity" to the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus is present after six months in people who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 - suggesting they might have some level of protection for at least that time. "While our findings cause us to be cautiously optimistic about the strength and length of immunity generated after SARS-CoV-2 infection, this is just...

The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon in October 2020 is more than double those in October...

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said she accords a lot of weight to scientific advice when dealing with the coronavirus, but she declined to say how important it is for her that scientific advice is listened to in the White House. "Otherwise, you know from me that with my training as a physicist, I of course apportion a great deal of weight to academic advice and use it myself," she...

A small but key UK study has found that "cellular immunity" to the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus is present after six months in people who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 - suggesting they might have some level of protection for at least that time. "While our findings cause us to be cautiously optimistic about the strength and length of immunity generated after SARS-CoV-2 infection, this is just...

Sweden famously didn't implement many lockdown measures, and its death rate soared. It's now pushing a stricter...

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave few details of what happened, but said that he would self-isolate despite not suffering any...

For the past few years, crop machinery has sat idle in many Australian farm sheds as a devastating drought left almost nothing to harvest across the country's pancake-flat eastern wheatbelt. As the southern summer approaches, however, Ben Ledingham now watches combine harvesters race up and down wheat fields on his family's property just outside Moree, an inland town in New South Wales. Many of...