This week’s furore is microplastics researchers’ ozone moment. If they fail, the powerful plastics lobby will step into the breach, says science journalist and author Debora MacKenzie

If the world has learned anything from the Covid pandemic, it is that new viruses must be stopped in their tracks, says science journalist Debora MacKenzie

To stop another, more severe, pandemic, those misleading stories like thinking the virus would burn itself out can’t be forgotten, says science journalist Debora MacKenzie