As school starts again and COVID case numbers rise -again-, September 2021 feels a lot like September 2020. Wasn’t it supposed to be over by now? Weren’t we supposed to be back to normal, whatever that new normal might be? Weren’t our children supposed to start a normal school year, after 18 long months of Zoom school and all the limitations required to keep our children and teachers safe? Yes, yes and yes. And yet it is déjà vu all over again, to paraphrase Yogi Berra. All t

Cambridge scientists have identified 200 approved drugs predicted to work against COVID-19 – of which only 40 are currently being tested in COVID-19 clinical trials. In a study published today in Science Advances, a team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Milner Therapeutics Institute and Gurdon Institute used a combination of computational biology and machine learning to create a comprehensive map of proteins that are involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection – from

Researchers studying how we make moral judgements found that people more concerned about catching COVID-19 were more disapproving of the wrong-doings of others, or whatever else they were doing wrong. The researchers say their findings are evidence that our morality is shaped by various emotions and intuitions, of which concerns about health and safety are prominent. This means that our judgements of wrongdoing are not completely rational. The study, published today in the jo