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Science

  • Starwatch
    Venus, Mars and the moon cluster with twin stars of Gemini

    Castor and Pollux mark the heads of celestial siblings preparing to slip from view with the twilight

  • The hole truth
    Scientists solve mystery of ‘pogo-stick’ seabed tunnels

  • Infectious diseases
    Covid-resistant bats could be key to fighting the next pandemic

  • Australia
    Meteor blazes across north Queensland sky with blast of light and sound

  • Menopause
    Drug for hot flushes will transform treatment, doctors say

  • Ancient kissing
    First records of human kissing may date back 1,000 years earlier than estimated

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News

  • Toddlers’ gut bacteria may predict future obesity, study suggests

    • UK will lead on ‘guard rails’ to limit dangers of AI, says Rishi Sunak

    • Developing country voices will be excluded at UN plastic talks, say NGOs

    • Injectable HIV-prevention drug to be made in South Africa for the first time

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Coronavirus

  • Simon Schama on the broken relationship between humans and nature: ‘The joke’s on us. Things are amiss’

  • US Covid emergency status ends as officials plan ‘new phase of managing’ virus

  • ‘Sometimes I don’t recognise my own family’: life with face blindness

  • Is Covid really over? WHO’s announcement sounds more like surrender than victory

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Opinion

  • Martha Gill

    There’s no shame in waging war on old age – long live Martha Stewart

    Martha Gill

  • Artificial intelligence holds huge promise – and peril. Let’s choose the right path

    Michael Osborne
  • Devi Sridhar

    Bird flu could become the next human pandemic – and politicians aren’t paying attention

    Devi Sridhar
  • Rhiannon Neads

    The biggest ever space explosion has occurred – what do you mean you don’t care?

    Rhiannon Neads
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Science Weekly podcast

  • Menopause: could a new brain-based treatment cure hot flushes? – podcast

     

  • Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast

     

  • First UK baby born with DNA from three people: what happens next? – podcast

     
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Key issues

  • Physics
    The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysteries of the cosmos?

  • Biology
    The hole truth: scientists solve mystery of ‘pogo-stick’ seabed tunnels

    • Space
      Starwatch: Venus, Mars and the moon cluster with twin stars of Gemini

    • Genetics
      Dominic Kwiatkowski obituary

    • Medical research
      Toxins from gut damage fat cells and drive weight gain, study suggests

    • Psychology
      A Chelsea garden for our darkest days

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Succession

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Can you solve it? Succession

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? Chicken or egg

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Can you solve it? Chicken or egg

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Multimedia

  • ‘Absolutely gargantuan’: astrophysicist explains largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed – video

     

    1:17

  • SpaceX Starship rocket blows up minutes after launch – video

     

    0:56

  • Total solar eclipse 2023: rare hybrid eclipse reaches totality over Western Australia – video

     

    1:10

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