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  • John Mc Fall poses with his European Space Agency class mates of Meganne Christian and Rosemary Coogan

    European Space Agency
    To boldly go: John McFall hopes to be the first astronaut with a disability

  • Cambridge and Kygyzstan joint expedition huddle round new botanical find on alpine slopes in Krgyzstan. "Cambridge University Botanic Garden is searching for an enthusiastic and dynamic Expedition Botanist to lead our plant-collecting expeditions around the world. This is a unique role that combines international travel, conservation, research, and teaching in a vibrant, supportive team."

    Science
    Wanted: expedition botanist to follow in Darwin’s footsteps and look for plants

  • T Coronae Borealis star system

    Starwatch
    Still waiting for nova T Coronae Borealis to blow up

  • A yellow box with a large lens and two solar-panelled wings nears a large pitted rock in a dark blue sky

    Asteroids
    European space mission to examine Nasa asteroid impact site

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  • A pair of black glasses with blue lenses sitting on a black surface

    AI glasses to anticipating falls: firms vie to win £1m for dementia technology

  • Team of surgeons at work

    Scientists create surgical stitch to aid healing by electrical stimulation

  • Firefighters tackling a blaze

    Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts

  • Tangle of electric cables plugged into an extension lead on a brown floor

    Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage

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  • 3D rendering of Covid-19

    Everything you need to know about Covid this autumn – podcast

  • Chris Whitty in a suit and dark tie emerging from a building

    Future pandemic as big as Covid is inevitable, says Whitty

  • Covid lateral flow test being administered

    Covid on the rise as experts say England has ‘capitulated’ to the virus

  • GP writing a prescription

    Mental health overtakes cancer and obesity as Britons’ biggest health worry

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  • Illustration of a woman holding her hand up

    Spirituality is the shy hope in my heart that I can co-create a better world

    Jackie Bailey
  • Lucy Jones

    ‘Baby brain’? ‘Fussy eater’? By dispelling such myths, science is taking the shame out of parenting

    Lucy Jones
  • Catherine Bennett

    Any ice-age telepaths out there? Please explain why Netflix is revisiting Ancient Apocalypse

    Catherine Bennett
  • Sally Davies

    The world is facing an antibiotic emergency: a data-led plan of action is needed now

    Sally Davies
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  • A train passes the cooling towers of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station

    End of an era: Britain finally says goodbye to coal – podcast

  • Underwater image of the beautiful marine environment, sea grass and fish species

    Is the ocean becoming too acidic to sustain life? – podcast

    Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world’s life-support systems. They say ocean acidification is close to critical threshold, posing a threat to marine ecosystems and global liveability. Ian Sample speaks to Prof Helen Findlay, a biological oceanographer at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, to find out why the oceans have reached this state, and whether there is anything we can do to reverse the damage.
  • An elderly woman kisses a young girl on the cheek as they sit next to a birthday cake with the number 100 on top. Photo: Getty Images

    Are the world’s oldest people really that old? – podcast

    Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who has just won an Ig Nobel prize – given to scientific research that ‘first makes people laugh, and then makes them think’ – for his work showing that many claims of people living extraordinarily long lives come from places with short lifespans, no birth certificates, and where clerical errors and pension fraud abound
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Key issues

  • John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

    Physics
    Machine learning pioneers win Nobel prize in physics

  • Team of surgeons at work

    Biology
    Scientists create surgical stitch to aid healing by electrical stimulation

    • Space
      To boldly go: John McFall hopes to be the first astronaut with a disability

    • Genetics
      NHS England to screen 100,000 babies for more than 200 genetic conditions

    • Medical research
      Scientists create surgical stitch to aid healing by electrical stimulation

    • Psychology
      Do you tell yourself you’re happier than you are? Stop the gaslighting

  • box purple

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? The box problem that baffled the boffins

  • box

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? The box problem that baffled the boffins

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? The poker puzzle that has everyone fooled

  • poker hands. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.<br>APJ9PY poker hands. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? The poker puzzle that has everyone fooled

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Multimedia

  • Timelapse: 'ring of fire' forms during solar eclipse at Easter Island – video

  • An aircraft flies past the supermoon as it rises in Brisbane, Australia.

    Glowing September supermoon lights up the sky – in pictures

    Stargazers around the world enjoyed the supermoon – sometimes called the harvest moon in the northern hemisphere – that coincided with a partial lunar eclipse
  • The partial lunar eclipse was visible across parts of Europe, Africa, North and South America

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    Supermoon with partial lunar eclipse charms stargazers across the world – video

    The partial lunar eclipse was visible across parts of Europe, Africa, North and South America
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