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  • Paul Nurse

    Royal Society
    Row at Royal Society over bid to re-elect former president to head ‘boys’ club’

    Exclusive: Fellows divided as council reportedly puts forward Sir Paul Nurse for role never held by a woman
  • MRI scan of human head

    Alzheimer's
    UK health regulator rejects lecanemab as treatment for Alzheimer’s

  • Illustration of a woolly mammoth

    Anthropology
    Prehistoric humans may have stuck pikes in ground to kill mammoths, say experts

  • 2 slices of ham in a baguette on a plate

    Diabetes
    Two slices of ham a day can raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, research suggests

  • The blue supermoon rises behind the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, 19 August 2024

    The moon
    Rare full blue supermoon lights up the sky – in pictures

  • An aircraft is silhouetted against the orange moon

    Explainer
    What is a blue supermoon and when will it appear in UK skies?

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News

  • Black and white photo of a man and a woman talking while playing the computer game Pong on a TV in the 1970s

    Scientists enable hydrogel to play and improve at Pong video game

  • A penguin on a rock looking at ice floes in Antarctica

    Rubbish and disease could disrupt Antarctic ecosystems as ice buffers melt, study finds

  • A giraffe gallops against the skyline of Nairobi city in Kenya

    Humans to push further into wildlife habitats across more than 50% of land by 2070 – study

  • A finger with small pieces of debris stuck to it.

    Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’

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Coronavirus

  • a commuter wears a mask in a train

    Covid deaths in US lower than earlier peaks amid summer surge

  • gloved hand holds a vial of blood

    US study shows difficulty of finding lab test for long Covid: ‘The hunt will go on’

  • Peter Kyle arriving at Downing Street

    UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says minister

  • Impassive moping … Coma

    Coma review – vital signs are weak in Bertrand Bonello’s mopey lockdown drama

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Opinion

  • Mark Egan

    Baby boomers: why the swaggering levels of overconfidence? Could it be your age?

    Mark Egan
  • George Monbiot

    The livestock lobby is waging war on ‘lab-grown meat’. This is why we can’t let them win

    George Monbiot
  • Valley Vets strike, 14 August 2024 "Our striking members from @ValleyVets are in York today bringing their FFS message to @VetPartnersLtd HQ. Fairer fees for clients, fairer pay for the workers and smaller profits for the corporate fat cats. FFS @VetPartnersLtd, where are you? Time to return to negotiations."

    The Guardian view on striking vets: standing up for all creatures great and small

  • Venki Ramakrishna

    The Guardian view on ageing: the science of longevity is advancing

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Science Weekly podcast

  • A person in a lab works over a petri dish under a microscope

    Summer picks: why are so many science papers being retracted? – podcast

  • Girl reads with her younger sister

    Summer picks: what does the science say about birth order and personality? – podcast

    Madeleine Finlay meets Dr Julia Rohrer, a personality psychologist at the University of Leipzig, to unpick the science behind birth order
  • A peacock butterfly

    What’s happened to all the butterflies? – podcast

    Phoebe Weston speaks to Dr Richard Fox, head of science for the charity Butterfly Conservation, and to Matthew Hayes, who is part of the Banking on Butterflies project, about what’s going on with butterflies and how we can all play a role in helping them survive extreme weather
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Key issues

  • Kit Hill

    Physics
    Kit Hill obituary

  • Dr Ceri Lewis, smiling in a bobble hat and standing in an estuary with mud on her gloves and smeared on her trousers and jacket.

    Biology
    I’m obsessed with sea worms: ‘Thankfully, in 25 years of working with them, I’ve never been bitten’

    • Space
      Rocket explodes during testing at UK’s new spaceport in Shetland

    • Genetics
      World’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies aged 117

    • Medical research
      Summer picks: why are so many science papers being retracted? – podcast

    • Psychology
      Baby boomers: why the swaggering levels of overconfidence? Could it be your age?

      Mark Egan

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • FILE PHOTO: Boxes of OXO stock cubes are seen on the shelf of a supermarket in Manchester<br>FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Boxes of OXO stock cubes are seen on the shelf of a supermarket in Manchester, Britain March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Naughty noughts and crosses

  • oxo<br>Boxes of Oxo cubes Beef, Chicken and Lamb stock cubes, cooking ingredient

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Naughty noughts and crosses

  • RICHARD SUART (MAJOR-GENERAL) IN "PIRATES OF PENZANCE" @ COLISEUM (OPENING 4-12-04) TRISTRAM KENTON 12/04 (3 RAVELEY STREET, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

  • Andrew Shore (Major-General Stanley) in The Pirates Of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan @ London Coliseum. An English National Opera Production. (Opening 09-05-15) Tristram Kenton 05/15 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

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Multimedia

  • Rare blue supermoon lights up night skies globally – video

  • A meteor streak glows white and green against a night sky.

    ‘Most amazing thing I’ve seen’: readers’ photos of Perseid meteor shower

    This year’s spectacular display of shooting stars lit up skies from Wiltshire to Idaho, including sightings of the northern lights
  • Nasa release footage taken from the International Space Station

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    Nasa releases timelapse capturing red and green auroras over Earth – video

    Nasa release footage taken from the International Space Station
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