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Science

  • Nasa depiction of Voyager 1 operating in space

    Space
    Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

    Engineers spent months working to repair link with Earth’s most distant spacecraft, says space agency
  • Two people hike up a mountain path. The area around them is grassy and there is a clear blue sky.

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

  • Young nurse in medical scrubs and gloves looking at labrador and holding him while veterinarian gives injection

    Science Weekly
    Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? – podcast

  • Older couple hiking on grassy hills

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

  • 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

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News

  • a still from Putin, directed by Besaleel.

    Soiled nappies and karate: AI-rendered Putin biopic to be released

  • 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

  • James Magnussen celebrating a win in swimming

    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

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

    Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world – podcast

    Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about her visit to Monks Wood in Cambridgeshire, where ecologist Richard Broughton has witnessed the decline of the marsh tit population over 22 years, and has heard the impact on the wood’s soundscape
  • 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
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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

  • Young nurse in medical scrubs and gloves looking at labrador and holding him while veterinarian gives injection

    Biology
    Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? – podcast

    • Space
      Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

    • Genetics
      Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? – podcast

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

    • Psychology
      The personality audit: should we ask friends for their brutally honest feedback on our flaws?

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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