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Science

  • Frances Arnold won the Nobel and technology prizes for her work on directed evolution of enzymes.

    Science prizes
    ‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium engineering prize

    Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year’s award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age
  • The Milky Way is viewed from the outside

    Take an interstellar tour
    What would you see if you could travel around our galaxy?

  • A pitted gray rock lit against the black backdrop of space.

    Mini moon
    Nasa spacecraft discovers asteroid orbited by its own tiny satellite

  • Remnants of a mars-sized planet, which was thought to have crashed into Earth 4.5bn years ago and created the moon: Image 2: The giant Moon-forming impact leaves behind extraterrestrial rock inside the Earth

    Earth
    Blobs near core are remnants of collision with another planet, study says

  • The 550-year-old oak tree, with campaigners

    ‘Darwin’s oak’
    Tree to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass

  • Dawn at Stonehenge, a century after the monument was donated to the nation.

    ‘Very much like us’
    Festival reveals secrets of building Stonehenge

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News

  • Skeletal remains in a mass burial site in a shallow cave in the Rioja Alavesa region of northern Spain

    Large-scale warfare occurred in Europe ‘1,000 years earlier than previously thought’

  • A brown rat

    Rats may have power of imagination, research reveals

  • Mpox vaccine prepared at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California, in 2022.

    Mpox circulated for five years before global explosion in 2022, research finds

  • Rishi Sunak said the government would take the lead in helping people retrain for a changing labour market

    1:06

    AI is a 'co-pilot' not a threat to jobs, says Rishi Sunak – video

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Coronavirus

  • Dominic Cummings arrives at Dorland House in London to give evidence to the Covid inquiry. Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images

    The Covid inquiry – Politics Weekly UK

  • Senior woman doing puzzles in a book

    Brain health: six key questions answered

  • Lee Cain arriving at inquiry hearing on Tuesday morning

    Boris Johnson had ‘wrong skill set’ to lead during Covid, top aide tells inquiry

  • An illustration montage of fearful people and events

    We live in troubled times, but can fear be a force for good?

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Opinion

  • Devi Sridhar

    I feared scientific advisers were being used by the government – the Covid inquiry shows they were

    Devi Sridhar
  • Rishi Sunak at London Tech Week, in June 2023.

    Rishi Sunak’s AI safety summit appears slick – but look closer and alarm bells start ringing

    Chris Stokel-Walker
  • Emma Beddington

    Maggie Smith, Miriam Margolyes, Harriet Walter … I can’t get enough of the new fashion icons

    Emma Beddington
  • Devi Sridhar

    This new malaria vaccine will transform our battle with the deadliest creatures on Earth

    Devi Sridhar
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Science Weekly podcast

  • A scientist pipetting a DNA sample into a petri dish with a DNA profile in the background.

    Nuclear fusion, new drugs, better batteries: how AI will transform science – podcast

  • Surgeons during an operation.

    What could near-death experiences teach us about life, death and consciousness? – podcast

    Ian Sample meets Sam Parnia, an intensive care doctor and associate professor at NYU Grossman school of medicine in New York City who has spent his career exploring the boundary between life and death. He tells Ian how he believes near-death experiences can be explained and what medicine can learn from them
  • Black hole discovered<br>Undated handout artist impression of a black hole drifting through the Milky Way galaxy. An ultramassive black hole around 33 billion times the mass of the Sun has been discovered by astronomers in the UK. Scientists from Durham University said the gargantuan black hole is one of the biggest ever found. Issue date: Friday June 10, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE BlackHole. Photo credit should read: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger/N. Bartmann/Durham University/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Black holes, but backwards: unlocking the mysteries of white holes – podcast

    Ian Sample meets the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli to find out about his cutting-edge research into white holes, which are essentially time-reversed black holes. Rovelli explains why he thinks these hypothetical objects are worth exploring and reveals how they could explain one of the greatest mysteries of physics
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Key issues

  • Black hole and white hole with nebula over stars and cloud fields in outer space.

    Physics
    White Holes: Inside the Horizon review – Carlo Rovelli turns time on its head

  • Studio portrait of a persian cat with suspicious expression.

    Biology
    ‘AI can teach us a lot’: scientists say cats’ expressions richer than imagined and aim to translate them

    • Space
      Take an interstellar tour: what would you see if you could travel around our galaxy?

    • Genetics
      How do we know every fingerprint is unique?

    • Medical research
      Mpox circulated for five years before global explosion in 2022, research finds

    • Psychology
      ‘This saved my life’: the emotional alchemy bonding traumatised veterans and damaged racehorses

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • Una Stubbs death<br>File photo dated 4/2/1981 of Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge and Una Stubs as Aunt Sally. The actress, known for her roles in TV shows like Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Us Do Part, Sherlock and EastEnders, has died at the age of 84. Issue date: Thursday August 12, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story DEATH Stubbs. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Forget Wordle, here’s Worzle

  • ITV ARCHIVE<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX/Shutterstock (204688c) Aunt Sally [Una Stubbs] Worzel Gummidge [Jon Pertwee] - ITV ARCHIVE

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Forget Wordle, here’s Worzle

  • Predators' reactions on feeding time<br>ANTALYA, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 03 : A lion looks on during feeding time at a zoo in Antalya, Turkey on February 03, 2020. The reactions of predators such as lions, puma, lynx, tigers, wolves and jackals in the zoo, established in Antalya on an area of 569 thousand square meters, attract attention. While the roaring sounds of the lions and howling of the wolves increase during the feeding hours, the cougar, lynx, tiger, wolf and weasel sticking their tongues before feeding. (Photo by Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you a lion of logic?

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Are you a lion of logic?

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Multimedia

  • Amazon launches first two prototype satellites into space – video

  • A still image from footage of a dust devil on Mars, recorded by Nasa's Perseverance rover

    0:16

    Nasa’s Perseverance rover captures footage of dust devil on Mars – video

    Nasa's Perseverance rover recorded footage of a 2km-high dust devil on Mars on 30 August
  • A 48-hour timelapse of developing neurons in the central nervous system in a chick embryo won first price

    Dazzling microscopic worlds revealed in Nikon Small World in Motion competition – video

    A 48-hour timelapse of developing neurons in the central nervous system in a chick embryo won first price
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