BBC Futureflipped into NewsPlacebos How effective is a single vaccine dose against Covid-19? verified_publisherBBC Future - Zaria GorvettThe cases are already beginning to emerge. When 85-year-old Colin Horseman was admitted to Doncaster Royal Infirmary in late December, it was for a suspected kidney infection. But not long afterwards caught...
BBC Futureflipped into NewsEarth Science The 'megascale' structures that humans could one day build verified_publisherBBC Future - Anders SandbergIn 1603, a Jesuit priest invented a machine for lifting the entire planet with only ropes and gears. Christoph Grienberger oversaw all mathematical works written by Jesuit authors, a role akin to an editor...
BBC Futureflipped into NewsNeanderthals Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like verified_publisherBBC Future - Zaria GorvettTheir eyes met across the rugged mountain landscape of prehistoric Romania. He was a Neanderthal, and stark naked apart from a fur cape. He had good posture and pale skin, perhaps reddened slightly with...
BBC Futureflipped into NewsCycling Why some bike shares work and others don't verified_publisherBBC Future - Hope NgoA set of iconic photos from 2017 show brightly coloured fields which, at first glance, look like meadows filled with flowers in full bloom. It takes a while to register that the images aren't of verdant...
BBC Futureflipped into NewsNature Stopping the next one: What could the next pandemic be? verified_publisherBBC Future - Harriet ConstableThe Covid-19 pandemic took much of the world by surprise. But not everyone. For years, epidemiologists and other experts have warned that we have been setting ourselves up for a global pandemic. Most the...
BBC Futureflipped into NewsCambodia The other virus that worries Asia verified_publisherBBC Future - Harriet ConstableIt was 3 January 2020, and Supaporn Wacharapluesadee was standing by, awaiting a delivery. Word had spread that there was some kind of respiratory disease affecting people in Wuhan, China, and with the...
