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  • Woman holds a glass of water in one hand and several pills in the other

    Nutrition
    Daily multivitamins do not help people live longer, major study finds

    Analysis of 400,000 healthy adults finds no health benefits from taking daily multivitamins
  • An illustration of several Neanderthal women of different ages in a cave, one with her arms round two children.

    Neanderthals
    Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome hints at early humans’ compassion

  • A photograph of two men doing scientific work

    Astrophysics
    Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth

  • Insurrectionists with flags and red baseball hats, including QAnon conspiracist Jake Angeli, inside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021

    Science Weekly
    The surprising psychology behind extremism, and how politics is driving it – podcast

  • A dusk view of a section of the Trail Ridge Road winding through the snow-covered peaks of the Rockies

    Plate tectonics
    Deep mantle movements help explain Earth’s mysterious bulges

  • Albert Einstein<br>Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein, sitting at a table holding a pipe, circa 1933. (Photo by Lambert/Keystone/Getty Images)

    Albert Einstein
    Einstein letter warning FDR of threat of Nazi nuclear bomb set to fetch $4m

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News

  • Ancient illustrations of Egyptian people and a jackal-headed god, with Egyptian language above

    Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

  • A mammoth tusk in a riverbed

    Freak event probably killed last woolly mammoths, scientists say

  • Selection of chocolate bars including Aero, Toffee Crisp and Yorkie, along with Jammie Dodgers, Hula Hoops and fizzy drinks including Fanta, Relentless and Coca Cola

    Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist

  • A gloved hand presses a button on a computer monitor showing data such as heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation

    One in four healthy people over 60 in UK ‘have undiagnosed heart valve disease’

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Coronavirus

  • A galaxy (Photograph: ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA Wire)

    A black hole awakens and why some people avoid Covid: the week in science – podcast

  • An electron microscope image of coronaviruses.

    Covid immune response study could explain why some escape infection

  • Natacha Gray sitting in her wheelchair.

    ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

  • A child under a duvet in pyjamas

    Concern over children with long Covid and theories on its cause

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Opinion

  • John Naughton

    How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project

    John Naughton
  • David Hone

    The super-rich are buying up dinosaur bones – and now they want our near-perfect Stegosaurus

    David Hone
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    A male birth control gel is one step closer to reality, and that’s worth celebrating

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Coco Khan

    A dialogue with your pets? Do you really want a cat to say you look dog-rough today?

    Coco Khan
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Science Weekly podcast

  • Sunrise over Walney Offshore Wind Farm off the Cumbrian Coast in the UK

    What are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough? – podcast

  • Pedestrians shelter underneath a union jack umbrella on a wet Westminster Bridge in London

    Are cold and wet UK summers here to stay? - podcast

    Ian Sample talks to Matt Patterson, postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, to find out what’s causing the chilly weather, whether it’s really as unusual as it seems, and whether any sun is on the horizon for the UK
  • lab grown meat

    Slaughter-free sausages: is lab-grown meat the future? – podcast

    Ian Sample hears from Linda Geddes about her recent trip to the Netherlands to try cultivated meat sausages, courtesy of the company Meatable. Advocates say that cultivated meat could be the future of sustainable and ethical meat production. Linda explains how they’re made, how their carbon footprint compares with traditional meat and most importantly … what they taste like!
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Key issues

  • Dr Joseph Cotter with the UK's first commercial quantum accelerometer for navigation.

    Physics
    ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS

  • Ancient illustrations of Egyptian people and a jackal-headed god, with Egyptian language above

    Biology
    Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

    • Space
      Two US astronauts stuck in space as Boeing analyzes Starliner problems

    • Genetics
      Freak event probably killed last woolly mammoths, scientists say

    • Medical research
      Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

    • Psychology
      The surprising psychology behind extremism, and how politics is driving it – podcast

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • Observer Tech Monthly OTM gift guide Christmas Xmas November 2015. Tetris lights.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Try this triple Tetris teaser

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?

  • Pythagoras of Samos around 570 BC - 510 BC according to Metaponto in the Basilicata. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.<br>CW1WFW Pythagoras of Samos around 570 BC - 510 BC according to Metaponto in the Basilicata. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?

  • Stock images at a Coles supermarket. Fruit. Green apples. Melbourne. Australia. generic. oz stock. Groceries.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? How do you like them apples?

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Multimedia

  • Boeing's Starliner spacecraft lifts off carrying two Nasa astronauts to ISS – video

  • Gliese 12b is the size of Earth, or slightly smaller, like Venus. And its surface temperature is estimated to be a balmy 42C

    Australian student helps discover potentially habitable planet the size of Earth – video

    Gliese 12b is the size of Earth, or slightly smaller, like Venus. And its surface temperature is estimated to be a balmy 42C
  • A swirling purple and green aurora above silhouetted trees

    Northern lights illuminate skies in US and Canada – in pictures

    Rare sightings of aurora borealis in North America as atmospheric phenomenon fills overnight skies from California to Ontario
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