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Science

  • Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams pictured

    Space
    ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says

    Two astronauts who left Earth in June remain at International Space Station after issues with Boeing’s Starliner capsule
  • A calico cat sits, looking through small front door window on porch, waiting on hardwood carpet floor for owners

    Animal behaviour
    Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds

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    Drugs
    The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms: ‘What life after life could be like’

  • Circular light in the UK night sky

    Starwatch
    Perseids to peak in dazzling shower mid-month

  • Andrew Shore (Major-General Stanley) in The Pirates Of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan @ London Coliseum. An English National Opera Production. (Opening 09-05-15) Tristram Kenton 05/15 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

  • Nathalie Cabrol

    Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol
    ‘I believe Mars still has some big surprises for us’

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News

  • Meteor in an orangey sky

    Special treat for stargazers as Perseid meteor shower set to light up night sky

  • Brain scans of possible disease or damage in clinic.

    UK shortage of drug used to prevent brain damage in alcoholics

  • Agricultural labourers picking vegetables in a field

    Wildlife boosted by England’s nature-friendly farming schemes, study finds

  • Porthselau Beach, St David's Pembrokeshire

    Deep space radar site in Wales to go ahead to protect UK from ‘space warfare’

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Coronavirus

  • Peter Kyle arriving at Downing Street

    UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says minister

  • Impassive moping … Coma

    Coma review – vital signs are weak in Bertrand Bonello’s mopey lockdown drama

  • Baroness Heather Hallett

    The Guardian view on the Covid inquiry’s first report: poor preparation with tragic consequences

  • Devi Sridhar

    The Covid inquiry report makes it clear: Britain was completely and fatally unprepared

    Devi Sridhar
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Opinion

  • The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

    The Guardian view on the beauty of numbers: new ways of seeing reality

  • Children walk single file between patches of water, with temporary shelters in the background.

    Children in Gaza are now at risk of polio as well as bombs – we need a ceasefire now

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  • Robin McKie

    Turn off Netflix and take the stairs: let’s aim to die healthy rather than just live longer

    Robin McKie
  • Handful of psychedelic pills

    Psychedelic drugs have great therapeutic benefit – if understood on their own terms

    Ross Ellenhorn and Dimitri Mugianis
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Science Weekly podcast

  • Keely Hodgkinson celebrating her victory

    How Team GB’s psychologist gets the athletes mentally ready – podcast

  • Woman and young girl embracing outdoors<br>Woman and young girl embracing outdoors - stock photo

    Secrets of ageing: making our last years count – podcast

    In the final episode of a special Science Weekly three-part mini-series on ageing, Ian Sample meets Dr Rachel Broudy, medical director at Pioneer Valley Hospice and faculty lead of eldercare at Ariadne Labs, to find out how we can stop fearing our old age, and perhaps even make it fun.
  • G2 - the science of intermittent fasting

    Secrets of ageing: how long could I live? – podcast

    Ian Sample talks to Venki Ramakrishnan, winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry and author of the book Why We Die
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Key issues

  • The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

    Physics
    The Guardian view on the beauty of numbers: new ways of seeing reality

  • A calico cat sits, looking through small front door window on porch, waiting on hardwood carpet floor for owners

    Biology
    Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds

    • Space
      Special treat for stargazers as Perseid meteor shower set to light up night sky

    • Genetics
      NHS to offer ‘life-changing’ gene therapy for blood disorder thalassaemia

    • Medical research
      ‘It’s happening on the scale of a pandemic’: the drug-resistant infections killing African babies

    • Psychology
      ‘Feels quite cruel’: Australians with ADHD scrambling to find medication amid shortage

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • RICHARD SUART (MAJOR-GENERAL) IN "PIRATES OF PENZANCE" @ COLISEUM (OPENING 4-12-04) TRISTRAM KENTON 12/04 (3 RAVELEY STREET, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

  • Uluru / Ayer's Rock at sunset with Iconic Kangaroo Sign. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.<br>AY05FM Uluru / Ayer's Rock at sunset with Iconic Kangaroo Sign. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Can you outwit the wizards of Oz?

  • Dave Gray Archive<br>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 17: An aerial view of the central business district (CBD) and Sydney Opera House on February 17, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by David Gray/Getty Images)

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Can you outwit the wizards of Oz?

  • A proud mother duck leads her ducklings across a blue lake in Springtime.<br>P12NEY A proud mother duck leads her ducklings across a blue lake in Springtime.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Simple puzzles almost everybody gets wrong

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Multimedia

  • Close-up of endangered Red Handfish embryos

    Beaker Street science photography prize – in pictures

  • Boeing's Starliner capsule finally made its much-delayed first crewed flight from Cape Canaveral

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    Boeing's Starliner spacecraft lifts off carrying two Nasa astronauts to ISS – video

    Boeing's Starliner capsule finally made its much-delayed first crewed flight from Cape Canaveral
  • Gliese 12b is the size of Earth, or slightly smaller, like Venus. And its surface temperature is estimated to be a balmy 42C

    Australian student helps discover potentially habitable planet the size of Earth – video

    Gliese 12b is the size of Earth, or slightly smaller, like Venus. And its surface temperature is estimated to be a balmy 42C
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