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    Obesity
    UK researchers develop tool to identify people most at risk of obesity-related diseases

    Data tool could help NHS prioritise who gets access to limited weight-loss medication, say scientists

  • Science Weekly
    Sub-two-hour marathon, spooky houses explained and why is UK health in decline? – podcast

    Podcast19:34
  • NASA astronauts meet with President Trump at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office

    Artemis II
    Trump hosts crew of historic Artemis mission: ‘I would have had no trouble making it’

  • Test tubes and pipette displayed in front of AstraZeneca logo

    Pharmaceuticals industry
    AstraZeneca makes surprise U-turn with £300m pharma investment in UK

  • Person with bandaged knee standing with crutches at home.

    Medical research
    Knee surgery for cartilage damage does not benefit patients, study suggests

  • Person using AI chatbot in front of computer screen

    Friendly AI chatbots more likely to support conspiracy theories, study finds

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    The age of extinction
    Older than the dinosaurs: scientists finally unlock secret of the mayfly’s dance

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    Active-duty US soldiers to receive MDMA therapy for PTSD next year

  • Doctor using computer with virtual medical diagnostic interface showing AI healthcare technology.

    AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

  • Sam Neill pictured in Los Angeles in 2024

    Sam Neill announces he is cancer-free after taking part in Australian clinical trial: ‘I’m very, very excited’

  • A Geminid meteor shower above Kitt Peak national observatory, a program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, in Arizona

    Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation

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    We are preparing to transform the moon and Mars. The public must have a say in this future

    Ben Bramble
  • Polly Toynbee

    UK Biobank has my data, but I’m not worried. I know the benefits are too great to consider pulling out

    Polly Toynbee
  • A Stand Up for Science rally in New York, protesting against the Trump administration's cuts to federal scientific funding, March 2025.

    The Guardian view on Trump’s war on science: politicising a generation of researchers

  • Martin Rowson

    What does the Zoological Society of London do? After 200 years, the answer is still ‘everything’

    Martin Rowson
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    Science Weekly

    What is a food intolerance, and how do you know if you have one? – podcast

    Podcast17:50
  • Anne Hathaway and Alex Honnold speak onstage during the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony
    Science Weekly

    Muons, massive waves and restored sight: the winners at the ‘Oscars of science’ – podcast

    Podcast16:19
  • Photo Illustration - Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing, Créteil, France - 08 Apr 2026. The visual for Project Glasswing is displayed on a smartphone screen placed on a reflective surface on to which a Claude logo with hexagonal patterns is projected, in Creteil, France, on April 8, 2026. Anthropic has announced the launch of Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative based on the Claude Mythos model to detect and correct vulnerabilities in critical open-source software.
    Science Weekly

    Mythos: are fears over new AI model panic or PR? – podcast

    Podcast15:50
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    ‘Satellites help join up the dots’: the man on a mission to connect Siemens Energy staff across North America

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    From energy autonomy to shipping solutions: meet the people behind Europe’s clean energy charge

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Key issues

  • Physics
    Muons, massive waves and restored sight: the winners at the ‘Oscars of science’ – podcast

    Podcast16:19
  • A jogger walks up to the dead sperm whale

    Biology
    Blobs of fat and the smell of rotting garbage: at an idyllic Sydney beach, a 25-tonne sperm whale slowly disintegrates

  • earth viewed from behind the moon

    Space
    We are preparing to transform the moon and Mars. The public must have a say in this future

    Ben Bramble
  • Automated storage system at UK Biobank's genome sequencing facility

    Genetics
    Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you as s-s-smart as a snake?

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Are you as s-s-smart as a snake?

  • HISTORY Navy 3National Archives handout image issued Tuesday June 21, 2005 of a portrait of Lord Nelson from a section of the Battle of the Nile plan dated 1 August 1798. History fans are being given the first-ever opportunity to see original journals, diaries and logs penned by Britain's most celebrated naval figures. The hand-written documents by captains James Cook and William Bligh and Admiral Lord Nelson are being displayed in a new exhibition opening tomorrow at the National Archives in Kew, south west London. See PA story HISTORY Navy. PRESS ASSOCIATION photo. Photo credit should read: The National Archives, Kew/PA

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a Navy admiral?

  • ARTS Nelson 4A portrait of Admiral Lord Nelson in the Great Cabin aboard HMS Victory in Portsmouth, Tuesday December 20, 2005. The portrait of Britain's most famous naval hero is being put on public display tomorrow, 200 years to the day since it was painted as the great Admiral's body lay in his cabin on his flagship prior to being sealed into his coffin. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Photo credit should read: Chris Ison/PA

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a Navy admiral?

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    Artemis II splashdown – in pictures

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