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Science

  • people photograph a rocket launch

    Space
    SpaceX launches two lunar landers to the moon

    Privately built spacecraft from Texas-based Firefly and Japan’s ispace will conduct experiments for future missions
  • A woman in a white hard hat excavates a deep burial site next to the remains of a skeleton

    Archaeology
    Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests

  • Two dead pelicans washed up at the water's edge next to a pebbly shore

    The age of extinction
    Age of the panzootic: scientists warn of more devastating diseases jumping between species

  • Woman silhouetted against a window

    Society
    Scientists find hundreds more genetic risk factors for depression

  • Young girl squeezing tomato sauce on to a plate of chips

    Ultra-processed foods
    Are ultra-processed foods changing the shape of our jaws?

  • a space rocket stands on a launch pad

    Blue Origin
    Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin calls off debut rocket launch minutes before blastoff

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News

  • Luke Evans stands among the burned remains of his research facility

    Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool

  • Silhouette of a stargazer looking up at an illuminated Milky Way galaxy

    ‘We’re very fortunate’: stargazers to see almost all planets in the night sky at the same time

  • Peter Kyle

    UK can be ‘AI sweet spot’: Starmer’s tech minister on regulation, Musk, and free speech

  • Attention span

    Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back? – podcast

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Coronavirus

  • An aerial view of a snow-covered Liverpool, including buildings in the life sciences hub and the city's port

    From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot

  • A masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

    Are we ready for another pandemic?

  • Arrangement of hydroxychloroquine pills

    Journal retracts study that promoted hydroxychloroquine as Covid treatment

  • A bucket of Covid-19 test vials at a testing clinic

    Most teenagers recover from long Covid after two years, study shows

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Opinion

  • Patrick Schröder

    The risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you

    Patrick Schröder
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Lucy Jones

    Look at the underside of a log, and you’ll find my new obsession: the beautiful, bonkers world of slime moulds

    Lucy Jones
  • A trowel is propped up in a water-filled dinosaur print.

    I can just see those dinosaurs plodding through the Cotswold mud

    Mike Pitts
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Science Weekly podcast

  • A Monterey County Firefighter watch as a LA County helicopter comes in to make a water drop on the Palisade Fire in California.

    How weather ‘whiplash’ set the stage for the LA fires – podcast

  • Front view of a man and woman using laptops and glaring sideways at each other

    Are we hardwired to commit ‘deadly sins’? – podcast

    Ian Sample hears from Guy Leschziner, a consultant neurologist and sleep physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in London, whose new book, Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human, looks at the neurological basis of behaviours often dismissed as evidence of bad character or lack of willpower
  • Woman monitoring the levels of glucose in her blood using a smartphone with sensor attached to her arm

    Revisited: does the evidence on glucose tracking add up? – podcast

    In this episode from July, Ian Sample talks to the philosopher Julian Baggini, the University of Oxford academic dietician Dr Nicola Guess, and Zoe’s chief scientist the King’s College London nutrition expert Prof Sarah Berry to find out what we know about blood glucose levels and our health, and whether the science is nailed down on personalised nutrition
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Key issues

  • Snowy peak of mountain with forest in foreground.

    Physics
    Weatherwatch: Chinese avalanche photos reveal electrical phenomenon

  • Woman silhouetted against a window

    Biology
    Scientists find hundreds more genetic risk factors for depression

    • Space
      SpaceX launches two lunar landers to the moon

    • Genetics
      Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests

    • Medical research
      The deadliest beings on the planet: can the bacteriophage help in our fight against superbugs?

    • Psychology
      As an agony aunt, I know the biggest cause of unhappiness: other people. Here’s the secret to better relationships

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • FILE PHOTO: Illustration photo of the PayPal app on a phone<br>FILE PHOTO: The PayPal app logo seen on a mobile phone in this illustration photo October 16, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration/File Photo

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Interview questions for aspiring billionaires

  • PAYPAL THIEL MUSK<br>PayPal Chief Executive Officer Peter Thiel, left, and founder Elon Musk, right, pose with the PayPal logo at corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Oct. 20, 2000. Online payment provider PayPal Inc. raised $70.2 million in its widely anticipated initial public offering, but a patent infringement lawsuit gave investors reason to be wary as the stock began trading Friday, Feb. 15, 2002 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. After covering expenses, Palo Alto-based PayPal expects to net $61.3 million from the initial sale Thursday of 5.4 million shares at $13 apiece, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Interview questions for aspiring billionaires

  • Petty gripes illustration for ' How dare you ask me what I’m doing for NYE? ' . The illustration shows 2025 glasses broken on the ground with confetti.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? All you need to know about 2025

  • New Year's Eve 2025 numerals arrive in Times Square in New York<br>epa11784178 President of Countdown Entertainment Jeffrey Straus (R) reacts to the seven-foot-tall numerals for 2025 being lit for the first time after their arrival to Times Square in New York, New York, USA, 18 December 2024. The numerals will soon placed atop One Times Square, where they will sit for the New Year's Eve celebration. EPA/SARAH YENESEL

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? All you need to know about 2025

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Multimedia

  • Drone footage shows dinosaur footprints unearthed in Oxfordshire – video

  • A building on a peninsular with stars and the northern lights in the sky, with the sea on both sides

    Northern Lights Photographer of the Year – 2024

    The Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection from Capture the Atlas features the most extraordinary Aurora photos captured over the 12 months
  • Researchers in Russia have unveiled the near intact carcass of a juvenile female mammoth, whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years

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    'World's best-preserved mammoth' found in Siberia – video

    Researchers in Russia have unveiled the near intact carcass of a juvenile female mammoth, whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years
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