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  • Woodhenge site of numerous wooden poles dug into the ground in a field

    Stonehenge
    Archaeologists say they have proof humans carved huge pits near Stonehenge

    Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle
  • a women looking at a camera

    Science
    Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable

  • Science Weekly
    Is it the beginning of the end for animal testing?

    Podcast17:31
  • The Milky Way

    Space
    Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter

  • A scaly red creature with swimming flaps running along either side of its body and two anntenae coming off its head

    Earth
    Changes in solar energy fuelled high speed evolutionary changes, study suggests

News

  1. Mounjaro weight-loss jabs

    People who stop using Mounjaro suffer reversal of health benefits, says study

  2. Father holds son with both smiling at camera

    Groundbreaking UK gene therapy offers hope after progress of three-year-old

  3. German hairy snail.

    Search is on for the German hairy snail in London

  4. Child getting an injection

    Two UK clinical trials to assess impact of puberty blockers in young people

Opinion

  1. Polly Toynbee

    The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion

    Polly Toynbee
  2. A mouse being held by a laboratory technician

    The Guardian view on animal testing: we can stop sacrificing millions of lives for our own health

  3. Imogen West-Knights

    The man who froze his wife and got a new girlfriend: a stranger, sadder tale than I expected

    Imogen West-Knights
  4. Ranjana Srivastava

    Doing your own research isn’t a bad thing, I tell my patients. But just how will they spot the fraudulent papers?

    Ranjana Srivastava

Science Weekly podcast

  1. A huddle of delegates at Cop30. Some are looking at their phones, some are speaking to each other and one has a phone to his ear
    Science Weekly

    Bitter rows and overnight talks: how a fragile Cop30 deal was agreed – podcast

    Podcast
  2. The beginnings of a permafrost thaw slump created by a landslide that formed after a heatwave in Qikiqtaruk territorial park, Yukon territory, Canada.
    Science Weekly

    ‘Chunks of earth just disappear’: life on a collapsing island – podcast

    Podcast
  3. Patient getting vaccination at home. Concept photo.
    Science Weekly

    Should the UK brace for a brutal flu season? – podcast

    Podcast

Key issues

  • The Milky Way

    Physics
    Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter

  • A psathyrella mushroom

    Biology
    ‘Nature’s original engineers’: scientists explore the amazing potential of fungi

  • The Milky Way

    Space
    Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter

  • Father holds son with both smiling at camera

    Genetics
    Groundbreaking UK gene therapy offers hope after progress of three-year-old

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • Soap Bubbles on white BackgroundSeveral Soap Bubbles of Different Size on white Background

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a soap bubble?

  • close up of bubblesstudy of of bubbles, close up

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a soap bubble?

  • Vintage arsenic poison bottle on antique shelfB79TFM Vintage arsenic poison bottle on antique shelf

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Two dead at the drink-off – a brilliant new lateral thinking puzzle

  • Poison bottles still-lifeBR4HGE Poison bottles still-life bottle

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Two dead at the drink-off – a brilliant new lateral thinking puzzle

Multimedia

  2. Biggest full moon this year seen in Dresden

    From St Basil’s to Bondi: the brilliant ‘beaver’ supermoon – in pictures

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