By Alice Klein There has been a slight rise in congenital anomalies in China following the switch to a two-child policy Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Alamy Stock The rate of birth anomalies in China has increased slightly in the years since it replaced its one-child policy with a two-child policy, perhaps because couples are having second…
By Layal Liverpool Pale spear-nosed bats are members of an elite group of animalsLutz Wiegrebe/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Bats can learn to mimic specific sounds, which puts them into an elite group of animals capable of this. Studying how bats can copy noises could help us learn more about humans’ unique capacity for speech and language. The ability…
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A worker in Bilbao, Spain on Tuesday 14 April.H. Bilbao/Europa Press via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5.45 pm on 14 April Some European countries begin easing restrictions Some European countries are allowing certain non-essential workers to return to their jobs…
We can't lose sight of the climate emergency when dealing with the covid-19 pandemic, say Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac Health | Comment 1 April 2020 By Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac Josie Ford WE HAVE known for some time that 2020 was going to be a milestone year for the climate change crisis, requiring…