A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children “I had the hormonal urges,” said Prof Camille Parmesan, a leading clim...
Accessible screening tool piloted by NHS England includes braille instructions and a better guide for stool sample Thousands of blind or partly sighted people could find it easier to participat...
Harvard researchers teamed up with Google to analyse the makeup of the brain, much of which is not yet understood Scientists have reconstructed a wiring diagram for a piece of human brain in un...
Fighting spirit helped us achieve the Paris accords in 2015 – and we need it now the world is on course to overshoot 1.5C • ‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientis...
Joy is all around us, according to the bestselling South Korean author. Here’s what he has learned from a long and often hard life In nearly 90 years, Rhee Kun Hoo has learned a lot about sur...
Researchers say reducing emissions and biodiversity loss and preventing invasive species could control disease Biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental driver of infectious disease outbre...
‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says minister Malaysia plans to give orangutans as gifts to countries that buy its palm...
Sales of cottage cheese are booming thanks to a boost from protein-hungry social media influencers. But do we really need all this extra protein? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Joanne Slavin, a profe...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/09/how-much-protein-is-too-much-podcast
Opal Sandy can hear almost perfectly after groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes A British toddler has had her hearing restored after becoming the first person in the world to take p...
Earth’s greatest living structure is dying. But the humanity of reef scientists is as beautiful as any coral I’ve ever seen From the dry lab on One Tree Island research station – about 10...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/09/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching
Paul Marshall’s claim on thousands of WW2 silver bars successfully challenged by South African government The joint owner of GB News has lost a legal battle with the South African government ...
AlphaFold breakthrough may bolster work in fields from antibiotics and cancer therapy to resilient crops Researchers have hailed another “leap forward” for artificial intelligence after Goo...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/08/google-deepmind-ai-biology-alphafold
Exclusive: Sandstone rock featuring language markings created 1,600 years ago to go on display at museum A geography teacher was tidying his overgrown garden at his home in Coventry when he stu...
AI analysis of 180 vape flavours finds that products contain 127 ‘acutely toxic’ chemicals, 153 ‘health hazards’ and 225 ‘irritants’ Chemicals used to produce vapes could be acutely...
A study has found that more than two dozen US coastal cities are sinking by more than 2mm a year. It’s a similar picture across the world. Nearly half of China’s major cities, as well as plac...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/07/why-are-cities-sinking-podcast
Countdown halted hours before liftoff in latest delay for long-planned flight, with no word on next attempt Boeing called off its first astronaut launch because of a valve problem on its rocket...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/boeing-starliner-launch-scrubbed
I get advice about my age on social media (not all of it friendly), but I’m sanguine about life without youthful anxieties How old is old? That depends on how old you are, for as you age you ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/old-age-social-media-young-people
Glioblastomas are an extremely aggressive type of brain tumour, which is why the news this week of a vaccine that has shown promise in fighting them is so exciting. And this comes right off the b...
Omg it is an almost complete fossil specimen of a juvenile sthenurine! Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if wha...
Zhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreak The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defi...
Guardian Seascapes reporter Karen McVeigh tells Madeleine Finlay about a recent trip to the Galápagos Islands, where mounds of plastic waste are washing up and causing problems for endemic speci...
The answer to today’s puzzle Earlier today I set you this puzzle, about the tiling of a 4x4 grid. It requires a swift preamble, so here we go again. Consider the image below, which highligh...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/29/did-you-solve-it-tiler-swift
The tortured puzzlers department UPDATE: Read the solution here Apologies to any Antipodean Swifties arriving on this page. Today’s puzzle is about tiles, and whether or not you can solve ...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/28/can-you-solve-it-tiler-swift
Why has so little been done to make indoor spaces safer, to stop the spread of airborne viruses? Robin McKie’s article rings alarm bells for global health and our failure to control airborne ...
My grandfather, Brian Haywood, who has died aged 91, spent his career working as a nuclear physicist, mainly at the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell in Oxfordshire. He was born in Birmingh...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/25/brian-haywood-obituary
Many report symptoms lasting two years or longer and about 1.5m say disease affects day-to-day activities About 2 million people in England and Scotland say they are experiencing long Covid, fi...
The answers to today’s problems Earlier today I set you these puzzles, set by the author of Much Ado About Numbers, a new book about mathematics in Shakespeare’s day. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/15/did-you-solve-it-art-thou-smarter-than-shakespeare
Don’t make this a comedy of errors UPDATE: Read the answers here Today’s puzzles come from the quill of Rob Eastaway, the bard of brainteasers, whose latest book Much Ado About Numbers i...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/14/can-you-solve-it-art-thou-smarter-than-shakespeare
People in 15 US states, Mexico and Canada witnessed the awe-inspiring spectacle of a a total solar eclipse on Monday. Cities were plunged into sudden darkness and their inhabitants experienced a...
The moon blocks the sun along a path that cuts across several countries If you missed the total solar eclipse just wait … until 2044 Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2024/apr/08/total-solar-eclipse-photos-us-mexico-canada
Observers in Mazatlan were the first to witness a rare solar eclipse as the moon obscured the sun over Mexico. People in the US and Canada were also able to enjoy the spectacle. The most recent t...
Only private jabs are available to most, but annual shots could reduce healthcare costs and prevent deaths Cheaper private Covid jabs may end up as costly as pricier ones, say experts Private ...