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Science

  • Archaeology
    Virgil quote found on fragment of Roman jar unearthed in Spain

    Excerpt from the Georgics was carved into vessel used for olive oil 1,800 years ago

  • Covid-19
    Air pollution ‘aged’ hospital patients by 10 years, study shows

  • IVF
    One in five women conceive naturally after having baby via fertility treatment

  • Neuroscience
    Short daytime naps may keep brain healthy as it ages, study says

  • Plantwatch
    Why mosses are superheroes of the plant world

  • Cybercrime
    What does psychology have to do with phishing?

     
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News

  • French cave markings said to be oldest known engravings by Neanderthals

    • One in 10 health workers in England had suicidal thoughts during pandemic

    • Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’

    • Dame Sally Davies apologises to Covid bereaved in emotional hearing

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Coronavirus

  • Scientific advisers are not blameless in UK’s Covid record

  • ‘Designing a vaccine that covers all cancers is hard’: biotech pioneer Lindy Durrant

  • Nicola Jennings on how the Covid inquiry is exposing Tory ministers’ failings – cartoon

  • Zoe Williams

    Forget culture wars: the Covid inquiry is a stark reminder of what government is really about

    Zoe Williams
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Opinion

  • How bad is wildfire smoke for your health? Here’s my view as a toxicologist

    Christopher T Migliaccio

  • The Guardian view on stem cells and embryos: creating life’s likeness in a lab

  • Geoffrey Lean

    Whisper it, but the boom in plastic production could be about to come to a juddering halt

    Geoffrey Lean
  • Martha Gill

    We loved the Phillip Schofield drama because we enjoy watching people suffer

    Martha Gill
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Science Weekly podcast

  • Will new treatments change the way we view cancer for good? – podcast

     

  • Kakhovka dam destruction: why is Ukraine calling it ‘ecocide’? – podcast

     
    Madeleine Finlay speaks to Doug Weir from the Conflict and Environment Observatory about why the collapse of the Kakhovka dam is likely to be so damaging for biodiversity, access to clean water and levels of pollution. He explains why the environment has become such a central part of the narrative and considers what this increased focus could mean for Ukraine’s eventual recovery

  • Why is Nasa looking into UFOs and what has it found so far? – podcast

     
    Ian Sample talks to Prof David Spergel, the independent chair of a Nasa panel established to investigate sightings of UFOs, about what they hope to find and why there is so much stigma attached to this field
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Key issues

  • John Naughton

    Physics
    China and physics may soon shatter our dreams of endless computing power

    John Naughton

  • Biology
    Fossils show long necks of prehistoric reptiles were targeted by predators

    • Space
      Starwatch: a solstice gathering of the moon, Mars and Venus

    • Genetics
      Ancient Britons built Stonehenge – then vanished. Is science closing in on their killers?

      Jonathan Kennedy

    • Medical research
      Air pollution ‘aged’ hospital Covid patients by 10 years, study shows

    • Psychology
      ‘Your body is miraculous – enjoy it!’ 10 ways to be much more body-confident

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

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

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

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? Rotation, rotation, rotation

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Can you solve it? Rotation, rotation, rotation

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Multimedia

  • Paralysed man able to walk using implant that reads brainwaves – video

     

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

     

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    Scientists at Southampton University said they believe it was caused by a giant gas cloud getting pulled into a black hole

  • SpaceX Starship rocket blows up minutes after launch – video

     

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    Starship is largest and most powerful rocket ever built and could be first step to taking humans to Mars
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