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  • A nurse prepares to give Steve Young, one of the first patients in the trial, his first jab at UCLH in London

    Cancer
    ‘Real hope’ for cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled

    Excitement among patients and researchers as custom-built jabs enter phase 3 trial
  • The Penryn campus

    Spiders
    Exotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in Cornwall

  • Tractors in the streets of Kraków, Poland, as part of a protest against the EU's nature restoration law.

    Europe
    New nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn

  • A zebra finch perches on a branch while looking to the side

    Birds
    Noise from traffic stunts growth of baby birds, study finds

  • Artist’s impression of Ptychodus, showing two large sharks swimming around other sea creatures including ammonites. One shark is about to eat a turtle

    ‘An enigma’
    Scientists finally learn what giant prehistoric shark looked like

  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

    Science Weekly
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

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News

  • A vial of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

    MMR jab uptake among young people in England up by 23% since 2023, says NHS

  • A woman vaping

    Women should give up vaping if they want to get pregnant, study suggests

  • John Cleese sits in an armchair

    Secret to eternal youth? John Cleese extols virtues of stem cell treatment

  • a flood sign during a storm

    Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear

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Coronavirus

  • Medical staff wearing PPE on a ward for Covid patients at King's College Hospital, London, in December 2021.

    We must learn the lessons of Covid before another deadly disease strikes

  • female patient being given NHS vaccine injection

    Covid boosters are a gamechanger – if they are free for everyone

  • A cardboard bowl containing a multi-dose vial of the Covid vaccine and five unused needles with lids on

    Cheaper private Covid jabs may end up as costly as pricier ones, say experts

  • An NHS worker prepares a Covid vaccine at a Boots pharmacy in London

    Boots to offer Covid vaccines in England for nearly £100 a jab

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Opinion

  • Emma Beddington

    What have I learned from 20 years of parenting? Never to underestimate how wrong I can be

    Emma Beddington
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The media industry is dying – but I can still get paid to train AI to replace me

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • ‘There are currently nearly 10,000 active satellites and companies are working as fast as possible to get … a projected 1m in the next three to four decades.’

    Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field

    Sierra Solter
  • Zoe Williams

    Yes, total eclipses are very nice. But have you ever smelled bacon?

    Zoe Williams
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Science Weekly podcast

  • James Magnussen celebrating a win in swimming

    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

  • A marsh tit perched on a rock (Photgraph: Lisa Geoghegan/Alamy Stock Photo)

    Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world – podcast

    Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about her visit to Monks Wood in Cambridgeshire, where ecologist Richard Broughton has witnessed the decline of the marsh tit population over 22 years, and has heard the impact on the wood’s soundscape
  • Anne Mahrer and Rosmarie Wyder-Walti, of the Swiss elderly women group Senior Women for Climate Protection, talk to journalists after the verdict of the court in the climate case

    The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won – podcast

    The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland’s weak climate policy had violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women to family life. Ian Sample and Ajit Niranjan discuss why the women brought the case and what the ruling could mean for climate policy
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Key issues

  • Brian Haywood

    Physics
    Brian Haywood obituary

  • Young nurse in medical scrubs and gloves looking at labrador and holding him while veterinarian gives injection

    Biology
    Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? – podcast

    • Space
      ‘We live in a golden time of exploration’: astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life

    • Genetics
      Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child

    • Medical research
      ‘Plasma was called liquid gold’: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal

    • Psychology
      What have I learned from 20 years of parenting? Never to underestimate how wrong I can be

      Emma Beddington

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.<br>D1GRNK Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

  • Joseph Fiennes

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

  • Happy girlfriends women group drinking beer at brewery bar restaurant - Friendship concept with young female friends enjoying time and having genuine fun at cool vintage pub - Focus on left girl

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Best pub quiz questions ever

  • Pub quiz advertised on an A-board next to a pedestrian walkway, with copy space<br>Hand written notice on a pavement sign

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Best pub quiz questions ever

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Multimedia

  • Millions watch as total solar eclipse sweeps across Mexico, US and Canada – video

  • people wearing paper eclipse glasses look up at the eclipse

    Total solar eclipse over Mexico, US and Canada – in pictures

    The moon blocks the sun along a path that cuts across several North American countries
  • Observers in Mazatlan were the first to witness a rare solar eclipse as the moon obscured the sun over Mexico

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    Rare total eclipse of the sun darkens Mexico's skies – video

    Observers in Mazatlan were the first to witness a rare solar eclipse as the moon obscured the sun over Mexico
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