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  • A white lump of what looks like chicken in a black petri-dish

    Cell-cultivated meat
    Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ hailed as ‘transformative step’ for cultured meat

    Japanese-led team grow 11g chunk of chicken – and say product could be on market in five- to 10 years
  • RFK Jr. Fluoride<br>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a press conference about Utah's new fluoride ban, food additives and SNAP funds legislation, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Melissa Majchrzak)

    Science Weekly
    RFK Jr’s mixed messages on vaccines - podcast

  • A honey bee on a white flower

    Environment
    Wildflowers could be absorbing toxic metals that pass on to bees, study finds

  • Seth Rogen and wife Lauren Miller arrive at the Breakthrough prize ceremony

    Film
    Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage

  • A picture of a pond within a woodland

    Plantwatch
    Resurrected pools, remnants of last ice age, attract wildlife in Norfolk

  • A doctor writes a prescription.

    Heart disease
    British hospitals introduce treatment for heart failure that cuts deaths by 62%

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  • Bowls of fruit and vegetables at a market stall

    Move over, Med diet – plantains and cassava can be as healthy as tomatoes and olive oil, say researchers

  • An illustration of what the planet K2-18 b could look like with a red dwarf star on a black background that is speckled with some small stars. The planet is large, in the foreground on the right and the star is smaller, in the background at the lower left. The planet is various shades of blue, with wisps of white scattered throughout. The left edge of the planet (the side facing the star) is lit, while the rest is in shadow. The star has a bright red glow.]

    Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system

  • a man speaking

    RFK Jr contradicts experts by linking autism rise to ‘environmental toxins’

  • A woman walking in a park

    Brisk walking linked to lower risk of heart rhythm problems, study finds

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  • a person walking at a train station with no one around

    ‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?

  • A smog cloud hanging over Barcelona

    Are rising lower respiratory infection hospital admissions linked to dirty air?

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr

    Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

  • 3D illustration of the Covid-19 virus

    UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families

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  • Marina Hyde

    What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space

    Marina Hyde
  • Martha Gill

    Why resurrect the dire wolf when existing animals are facing extinction?

    Martha Gill
  • Helen Pilcher

    Have researchers really ‘de-extincted’ the dire wolf? No, but behind the hype was a genuine breakthrough

    Helen Pilcher
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    We are witnessing the destruction of science in America

    Paul Darren Bieniasz
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  • Technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center

    What 40 years as Observer science editor has taught Robin McKie – podcast

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Here are six pics of the Bains des Pâquis, a man-made jetty, beach and swimming area in the centre of the Geneva on the lake, Switzerland.

    Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast

    In the second of a two part series, Phoebe Weston travels to Switzerland to find out how the country has transformed its rivers, from sewage-filled health hazards to pristine swimming spots. She tells Madeleine Finlay how a public health disaster in the 1960s spurred the government to act, and what the UK could learn from the Swiss about taking care of a precious national asset.
  • The River Derwent on a sunny day with grassy slopes and trees in full leaf either side of it

    Streams of medicines: what’s hiding in the UK’s waterways? – podcast

    In episode one of a two-part series, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about the problem of chemical pollution in our waterways, and how it could be contributing to what the World Health Organization has described as ‘the silent pandemic’ – antimicrobial resistance.
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Key issues

  • A meteorite from the Perseid shower. Photograph: Daniel Damaschin/Alamy

    Physics
    It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-sac – podcast

  • David Liu poses for a picture seated in a room next to shelves featuring what appear to be rock samples and vintage camera equipment

    Biology
    Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize

    • Space
      Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system

    • Genetics
      Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

    • Medical research
      British hospitals introduce treatment for heart failure that cuts deaths by 62%

    • Psychology
      The sinister psychology at the heart of populism

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    Mathematics
    Did you solve it? That’s numberwang!

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? That’s numberwang!

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? The pals that broke the internet, ten years on

  • Lots of learning<br>Three worried students sitting in a library, holding piled up books.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? The pals that broke the internet, ten years on

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Multimedia

  • Katy Perry and Blue Origin crew return safely to Earth after space flight – video

  • The  astronauts  ended up spending 286 days in space — 278 days more than planned when they blasted off on Boeing’s first astronaut flight
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    Nasa astronauts Butch and Suni say they would fly on Boeing's Starliner capsule again – video

    The astronauts ended up spending 286 days in space — 278 days more than planned when they blasted off on Boeing’s first astronaut flight
  • Uncrewed test rocket falls to ground and explodes less than a minute after takeoff from Andøya spaceport in Norway
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    First orbital rocket launched from Europe falls to the ground and explodes – video report

    Uncrewed test rocket falls to ground and explodes less than a minute after takeoff from Andøya spaceport in Norway
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