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  • people watch the bright trail of a rocket launching into space

    Space
    Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon

    Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday
  • A person holds a mobile phone

    Internet
    Excessive time spent online linked to stress and worse mood – study

  • Four people in swimwear sit on wooden benches inside a wooden sauna, talking and smiling

    Health
    Repeated use of saunas could help people cope better in heatwaves, scientists say

  • Man looks to sky

    Senate committee delays vote on Todd Blanche attorney general nomination – as it happened

  • a man in front of a microphone

    Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned

  • A CGI image of what the finished buildings will look like: two blocks with tall windows are joined by a high walkway. There are tree-lined paths and cycle tracks around them. One building has a corner of its first floor supported by bright red metal struts with an open space towards the ground-floor entrance.

    GSK to cut jobs amid £1.9bn cost-cutting plan and bid for faster drug development

  • Gunther von Hagens in his trademark black fedora posing alongside a preserved human body

    Gunther von Hagens, creator of Body Worlds and plastination, dies aged 81

  • The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Macclesfield, Britain, 28 July 2026.

    The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics

  • Helen Pilcher

    For parents staring down the barrel of six weeks’ childcare: take a tip from orangutans

    Helen Pilcher
  • A silhouette of a figure wearing ceremonial decorations made of elongated bone or tooth pieces around the neck and leg cuffs

    The Guardian view on ancient DNA: a female shaman exposes our flawed assumptions about the past

  • anthrax viewed through microscope

    AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense

    Annie Jacobsen
  • A sauna hut covered in snow over a lake in the countryside
    Science Weekly

    Revisited: Saunas and cold plunges, where does the evidence stand? – podcast

    Podcast16:13
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    Science Weekly

    Revisited: The surprising science of dreams and nightmares – podcast

    Podcast22:06
  • Teabags with a blank green tag
    Science Weekly

    Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode three – a bag for life

    Podcast20:26

Key issues

  • The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Macclesfield, Britain, 28 July 2026.

    Physics
    The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics

  • Biology
    Revisited: Saunas and cold plunges, where does the evidence stand? – podcast

    Podcast16:13
  • The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Macclesfield, Britain, 28 July 2026.

    Space
    The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics

  • Disabled couple use sign language communicating.

    Genetics
    Deaf people excluded from gene-editing debate

  • Professor Stephen Hawking author of bestseller 'A Brief History of Time', 'Black Holes' and 'Baby Universes and Other Essays' and most recently in 2001, 'The Universe in a Nutshell'. Since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University. 13/09/2005 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY (press button below or see details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution, Murdo Macleods repro fees apply.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Do you think like a physicist?

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Do you think like a physicist?

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? This TV show is flipping brilliant!

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
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