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Science

  • Older couple hiking on grassy hills

    Ageing
    Perception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows study

    As people get older, they revise the age they consider to be old upwards
  • Claudia de Rham sits in front of a blackboard covered with equations at Imperial College London

    Physicist Claudia de Rham
    ‘Gravity connects everything, from a person to a planet’

  • An artist works on a mural during the coronavirus pandemic in Manchester.

    Influenza
    Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu virus, scientists warn

  • a series of outline heads with first, a scribble, then a line drawing of an apple, then a photograph of a shiny red apple

    ‘Like a film in my mind’
    Hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations

  • Diagram showing 20 of the snake's vertebrae.

    Snakes
    Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India

  • Pharmacy shelves

    Drugs
    Shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns

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News

  • Two people hike up a mountain path. The area around them is grassy and there is a clear blue sky.

    Try something new to stop the days whizzing past, researchers suggest

  • Two surgeons in an operating theatre

    Medical device companies pay millions to NHS while pushing products, says study

  • Nature campaigners Megan McCubbin and Chris Packham joined 400 Red Rebels in Bath

    Chris Packham joins environmental activists in mock funeral procession

  • Dr Hilary Cass holding up a copy of the gender services review.

    Hilary Cass warned of threats to safety after ‘vile’ abuse over NHS gender services review

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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

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The media industry is dying – but I can still get paid to train AI to replace me

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • ‘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

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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

  • Palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax (left) with Ruby and Justin Reynolds and Paul de la Salle (right)

    Biology
    Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, ‘may be of largest-ever marine reptile’

    • Space
      Australian taxpayers paid $466,000 for training of nation’s first female astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg

    • Genetics
      Tasmanian devil facial tumour research challenged: disease may not be declining after all

    • Medical research
      Medical device companies pay millions to NHS while pushing products, says study

    • Psychology
      Perception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows study

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.<br>D1GRNK Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.

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

  • Joseph Fiennes

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can 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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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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