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  • A grey world near a dull orange star

    Space
    Earth-sized planet spotted orbiting small star with 100 times sun’s lifespan

    Speculoos-3b, 55 light years away, is only second planetary system to be found around an ultra-cool red dwarf
  • A test tube containing a blood sample

    Cancer research
    Proteins in blood could provide early warning ‘by more than seven years’

  • The Great Mead, part of the garden in Selborne once belonging to Gilbert White, the 18th-century British naturalist

    Plantwatch
    Britain’s volunteer naturalists provide vital knowledge

  • A carving of a hanging that could be a representation of Napoleon.

    'Astonishing'
    Graffiti-covered door from French revolutionary wars found in Kent

  • Box and tube of Ozempic drug

    Medical research
    Weight loss drug could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds

  • A baby in a maternity ward in London

    Great Ormond Street
    Hospital hoping to license gene therapy for ‘bubble baby’ syndrome

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News

  • Shoppers on a high street in Belfast

    Cash incentives may help men lose weight, research finds

  • A new study has found that weight-loss drugs have a major effect on heart health.

    Wednesday briefing: The study that says semaglutide can do much more than help you lose weight

  • Children follow each other in a line while playing in a playground

    One bad rumour can affect how children view each other, study finds

  • A large group of people holding up posters and a large sign that reads dying for justice

    Infected blood scandal: women with hepatitis C ‘dismissed’ by doctors

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Coronavirus

  • Gloved hand holds vial with AstraZeneca vaccine label

    AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine is no more – but its remarkable success must not be forgotten

  • Researchers from Brazil's state-run Fiocruz Institute shine a light on a bat

    Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study

  • AstraZeneca vaccines

    AstraZeneca withdraws Covid-19 vaccine worldwide, citing surplus of newer vaccines

  • Scientist in a lab

    Scientists create vaccine with potential to protect against future coronaviruses

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Opinion

  • Aurora2024pixie

    We could see the aurora happening with our very own nude eyeballs. The chickens were uncertain and clucking

  • Bill McGuire

    The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think

    Bill McGuire
  • Christiana Figueres

    I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

    Christiana Figueres
  • Reef scientist Prof Terry Hughes dives over bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island.

    I weep for the corals, but what I saw on the Great Barrier Reef gives me hope

    Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
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Science Weekly podcast

  • G2: how to harness protein power

    How much protein is too much? – podcast

  • An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. (Photograph by Kemal Jufri for The Guardian)

    Why are the world’s cities sinking?

    Madeleine Finlay speaks to Prof Manoochehr Shirzaei of Virginia Tech University and Prof Robert Nicholls of the University of East Anglia to find out what’s making our cities sink, and whether anything can be done to rescue them from the sea
  • A nurse holding a syringe gives a man an injection

    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

    Ian Sample talks to Prof Alan Melcher of the Institute of Cancer Research about how personalised cancer vaccines work and whether they could one day be used to to target cancer before it is even detectable on scans
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Key issues

  • Brian Haywood

    Physics
    Brian Haywood obituary

  • An older white woman wearing glasses and a purple jacket stands by a window that reflects her image

    Biology
    Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

    • Space
      Earth-sized planet spotted orbiting small star with 100 times sun’s lifespan

    • Genetics
      Great Ormond Street hoping to license gene therapy for ‘bubble baby’ syndrome

    • Medical research
      Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning ‘by more than seven years’

    • Psychology
      One bad rumour can affect how children view each other, study finds

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Gems from the vault of the National Puzzlers’ League

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Tiler swift

  • Taylor Swift<br>FILE - Taylor Swift arrives at the world premiere of the concert film "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2023. Swift’s Instagram message encouraging her 283 million followers to register to vote was nominated for a Webby in the best creator or influencer category. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Tiler swift

  • Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.<br>D1GRNK Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

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Multimedia

  • A swirling purple and green aurora above silhouetted trees

    Northern lights illuminate skies in US and Canada – in pictures

  • Pillared monument with people in silhouette against northern lights

    Northern lights illuminate skies in UK and Europe – in pictures

    Aurora borealis fills an overnight sky, with rare sightings all over Europe from Whitley Bay to Vienna
  • People across 15 US states, Mexico and Canada witness awe-inspiring spectacle of a total solar eclipse

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    Millions watch as total solar eclipse sweeps across Mexico, US and Canada – video

    People across 15 US states, Mexico and Canada witness awe-inspiring spectacle of a total solar eclipse
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