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  • A spacecraft approaches an asteroid in space

    Asteroids
    Giant asteroid could crash into moon in 2032, firing debris towards Earth

  • Plastic containers are sorted for processing at a recycling facility in Los Angeles, California

    Drugs
    Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

  • How the earth shook for nine days and nobody knew why

    Video
    How the earth shook for nine days and nobody knew why

    Video5:12

  • Science Weekly
    Do medicinal mushroom products actually work? – podcast

    Podcast18:41

News

  1. Stars and gas clouds

    First images of distant galaxies captured by ‘ultimate’ telescope

  2. Male and female students share table in a library.

    Social success not about who you know – it’s about knowing who knows whom

  3. Video shows a giant fireball as Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship 36 explodes during testing before launch in Brownsville, Texas

    The moment Elon Musk's SpaceX’s Starship 36 explodes – video

    Video0:45
  4. Flames rise as a SpaceX rocket explodes.

    SpaceX rocket explodes in new setback to Elon Musk’s Mars project

Opinion

  1. Nina Gualinga in the Guardian documentary, Waska

    ‘Ayahuasca tourism’ is a blight on Indigenous peoples and our environment

    Nina Gualinga and Eli Virkina
  2. Sophie Pavelle

    Trying to get rid of noisy, food-stealing gulls is missing the point – it’s humans who are the pests

    Sophie Pavelle
  3. Covid 19 Variant NB.1.8.1

    The new Covid variant NB.1.8.1 is driving infections in Australia. A virologist explains what you need to know

    Lara Herrero for the Conversation
  4. Woman sits on bench with placard

    Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it

    Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek

Science Weekly podcast

  1. BRITAIN-POLITICS-ENERGY-NUCLEAR<br>EDF's Sizewell B nuclear power station is pictured ahead of a visit by Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in Sizewell, eastern England on September 1, 2022. - Outgoing British Prime Minister Johnson on Thursday promised £700 million for the Sizewell C nuclear power station project during his final major policy speech. (Photo by CHRIS RADBURN / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS RADBURN/AFP via Getty Images)
    Science Weekly

    Does the UK need nuclear to reach net zero? – podcast

    Podcast
  2. From left to right (adults only): Hitsambá Kanamari, Sebastião Kanamari and Tupiana Kanamari, the 60-year-old chief of the village of Jarinal in the Javari Valley Indigenous territory and Hitsambá’s and Sebastião's father. The last, Chico Kanamari. The newest members of Evu, an Indigenous patrol group in the Javari Valley, which Bruno Pereira helped found before his murder in 2022. // To mark three years since the murder of indigenist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips, the Guardian - which is launching a major series of investigative podcasts about the men, called Missing in the Amazon - took part in an exhaustive week-long expedition with the activists Phillips was writing his book about when he disappeared. Photo by João Laet / The Guardian
    Science Weekly

    How to Save the Amazon part 3: ask the people that know – podcast

    Podcast
  3. Women from Jussara Island take the lead in acai production and transform the community's reality.<br>Edna dos Anjos Nascimento, known as Bezinha, carries acai berries during harvest and production of acai berries, organized exclusively by women on Jussara Island, Para state, Brazil, December 29, 2024. REUTERS/Anderson Coelho
    Science Weekly

    How to save the Amazon part two: the magic and mystery – podcast

    Podcast

Key issues

  • Les Squires

    Physics
    Les Squires obituary

  • Plastic containers are sorted for processing at a recycling facility in Los Angeles, California

    Biology
    Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

  • Space
    Can a revolutionary new telescope solve the mystery of planet nine? – podcast

    Podcast15:10
  • a baby

    Genetics
    All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Is “yes” the answer to this question?

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? The deductive decade – ten years of Monday puzzles

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? The deductive decade – ten years of Monday puzzles

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? The most Guardian puzzle ever

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