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Science

  • Artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star and the black hole around their common centre of mass.

    Space
    Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times mass of sun

    BH3 spotted when scientists chanced upon star in Aquila constellation ‘wobbling’ under its gravitational force
  • A crescent moon over the silhouette of Stonehenge at night

    Stonehenge
    Rare lunar event to shed light on links to the moon

  • Nurse giving injection to a rabbit.

    Letters
    I earned more as a bin worker than a veterinary nurse

  • Astronomical diagram showing position of Lyrids

    Starwatch
    Lyrids meteor shower returns to the skies

  • Joseph Fiennes

    Can you solve it?
    Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

  • Galaxy M106 photographed by the Hubble telescope.

    Space
    World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe

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News

  • An English elm with its classic figure-of-eight shape

    The disease-busting hybrids that could bring back the majestic English elm

  • A newly discovered Pompeii fresco depicting Helen of Troy meeting Paris, prince of Troy, for the first time.

    Banquet room with preserved frescoes unearthed among Pompeii ruins

  • Artist’s illustration of the fox

    Fox bones at ancient burial site suggest animal may have been kept as pet

  • Prof Peter Higgs in his old office at Edinburgh University with a description of the Higgs model, written by him on the blackboard.

    Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

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Coronavirus

  • female patient being given NHS vaccine injection

    Covid boosters are a gamechanger – if they are free for everyone

  • A cardboard bowl containing a multi-dose vial of the Covid vaccine and five unused needles with lids on

    Cheaper private Covid jabs may end up as costly as pricier ones, say experts

  • An NHS worker prepares a Covid vaccine at a Boots pharmacy in London

    Boots to offer Covid vaccines in England for nearly £100 a jab

  • Devi Sridhar

    I helped advise the US government on the next likely pandemic. What I learned is alarming

    Devi Sridhar
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Opinion

  • ‘There are currently nearly 10,000 active satellites and companies are working as fast as possible to get … a projected 1m in the next three to four decades.’

    Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field

    Sierra Solter
  • Zoe Williams

    Yes, total eclipses are very nice. But have you ever smelled bacon?

    Zoe Williams
  • Ephesus in Turkey. Romeyka is a ‘living bridge’ to the ancient Hellenic world

    The Guardian view on endangered languages: spoken by a few but of value to many

  • Rafael Behr

    Frenzied politics is damaging to us all. We need the Daniel Kahneman doctrine

    Rafael Behr
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Science Weekly podcast

  • A marsh tit perched on a rock (Photgraph: Lisa Geoghegan/Alamy Stock Photo)

    Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world – podcast

  • Anne Mahrer and Rosmarie Wyder-Walti, of the Swiss elderly women group Senior Women for Climate Protection, talk to journalists after the verdict of the court in the climate case

    The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won – podcast

    The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland’s weak climate policy had violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women to family life. Ian Sample and Ajit Niranjan discuss why the women brought the case and what the ruling could mean for climate policy
  • Professor Peter Higgs visits the Science Museum's 'Collider' exhibition in London in 2013.

    Remembering physicist Peter Higgs – podcast

    The Nobel prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. Higgs theorised the existence of the Higgs boson particle, part of an attempt to explain why the building blocks of the universe have mass, five decades before its existence was confirmed in 2012. Ian Sample and Madeleine Finlay look back on the life and legacy of a giant of science
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Key issues

  • Artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star and the black hole around their common centre of mass.

    Physics
    Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times mass of sun

  • Still from Far Beyond the Pasturelands.

    Biology
    Far Beyond the Pasturelands review – on the trail of the ‘Himalayan Viagra’

    • Space
      Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field

      Sierra Solter

    • Genetics
      Scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing

    • Medical research
      ‘This isn’t how good scientific debate happens’: academics on culture of fear in gender medicine research

    • Psychology
      Is writing down my rage the secret to resolving it?

      Emma Beddington

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

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

  • Happy girlfriends women group drinking beer at brewery bar restaurant - Friendship concept with young female friends enjoying time and having genuine fun at cool vintage pub - Focus on left girl

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Best pub quiz questions ever

  • Pub quiz advertised on an A-board next to a pedestrian walkway, with copy space<br>Hand written notice on a pavement sign

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Best pub quiz questions ever

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Lewis Carroll for insomniacs

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Multimedia

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

  • people wearing paper eclipse glasses look up at the eclipse

    Total solar eclipse over Mexico, US and Canada – in pictures

    The moon blocks the sun along a path that cuts across several North American countries
  • Observers in Mazatlan were the first to witness a rare solar eclipse as the moon obscured the sun over Mexico

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    Rare total eclipse of the sun darkens Mexico's skies – video

    Observers in Mazatlan were the first to witness a rare solar eclipse as the moon obscured the sun over Mexico
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