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  • Weight-loss injection pen with cap on.

    Health
    Weight-loss jabs linked to reduced risk of 42 conditions including dementia

    Psychotic disorders also among conditions found less likely when people with diabetes took medications found in jabs
  • Illustration: Observer Design.

    Health
    ‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid

  • The logo of the neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk to develop an implantable brain computer interface, Neuralink, is visible on a smartphone screen.

    Neuroscience
    Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial

  • Star chart showing Venus and Saturn

    Starwatch
    Venus and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye

  • Trump riding a rocket, mars to the side with a Make America Great Again logo

    Space
    ‘Get those rocket ships going’: where will Trump’s space odyssey lead Nasa?

  • Orange streaks on blue sky

    SpaceX
    US and Turks and Caicos to inquire into failed SpaceX launch leading to debris

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News

  • Human brain scan in a neurology clinic

    Antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines could help tackle dementia, study suggests

  • Silhouette of a stargazer looking up at an illuminated Milky Way galaxy

    ‘We’re very fortunate’: stargazers to see almost all planets aligned in the night sky at the same time

  • A plaque at the Rutherford Building, at the University of Manchester

    ‘That’s the one thing we did’: New Zealand irked by Trump’s false claim US split the atom

  • ‘We were very careful about keeping their performances’ … Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist.

    The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground

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Coronavirus

  • a man looking at the camera

    ‘Life-or-death consequences’: families fear rollback of school vaccine requirements under RFK Jr

  • An aerial view of a snow-covered Liverpool, including buildings in the life sciences hub and the city's port

    From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot

  • A masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

    Are we ready for another pandemic?

  • Arrangement of hydroxychloroquine pills

    Journal retracts study that promoted hydroxychloroquine as Covid treatment

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Opinion

  • Martha Gill

    Are you a traitor or a faithful? Just take your lead from everyone else

    Martha Gill
  • Patrick Schröder

    The risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you

    Patrick Schröder
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Lucy Jones

    Look at the underside of a log, and you’ll find my new obsession: the beautiful, bonkers world of slime moulds

    Lucy Jones
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Science Weekly podcast

  • Ganzfeld, an extrasensory perception (ESP) experiment which involves covering the subject's eyes with ping-pong ball halves and shining a red light at them, while white noise is played through headphones

    Telepathy…what’s the evidence? – podcast

  • President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket.

    Our science predictions for 2025 – podcast

    Last year was full of unexpected science news, from a new strain of Mpox emerging in the DRC, to artificial intelligence dominating the Nobel prizes, and two astronauts getting ‘stuck’ in space. So what will this year bring? Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss the big stories likely to hit the headlines and share their predictions for 2025
  • A Monterey County Firefighter watch as a LA County helicopter comes in to make a water drop on the Palisade Fire in California.

    How weather ‘whiplash’ set the stage for the LA fires – podcast

    As wildfires continue to cause devastation in Los Angeles, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Albert van Dijk, professor of water science and management at the Australian National University, about how rising temperatures are causing rapid swings in extreme weather
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Key issues

  • A European tree frog

    Physics
    Hitchhiking frog article hopped over a crucial detail

  • An artist’s depiction of the early Earth.

    Biology
    Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet

    • Space
      ‘We’re very fortunate’: stargazers to see almost all planets aligned in the night sky at the same time

    • Genetics
      Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet

    • Medical research
      Antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines could help tackle dementia, study suggests

    • Psychology
      Are you being watched? Soderbergh’s ghost voyeur movie taps strange truths

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

  • Young people standing against each other<br>Young people standing in a line looking the same way.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Logicians in a line

  • Men and women standing in a line<br>Posed by models GettyImages-93192709

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Logicians in a line

  • FILE PHOTO: Illustration photo of the PayPal app on a phone<br>FILE PHOTO: The PayPal app logo seen on a mobile phone in this illustration photo October 16, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration/File Photo

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Interview questions for aspiring billionaires

  • PAYPAL THIEL MUSK<br>PayPal Chief Executive Officer Peter Thiel, left, and founder Elon Musk, right, pose with the PayPal logo at corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Oct. 20, 2000. Online payment provider PayPal Inc. raised $70.2 million in its widely anticipated initial public offering, but a patent infringement lawsuit gave investors reason to be wary as the stock began trading Friday, Feb. 15, 2002 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. After covering expenses, Palo Alto-based PayPal expects to net $61.3 million from the initial sale Thursday of 5.4 million shares at $13 apiece, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Interview questions for aspiring billionaires

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Multimedia

  • Rare footage captures meteorite descending to Earth on doorbell camera – video

  • Elon Musk’s company said the spacecraft’s six engines appeared to shut down one by one, with contact lost just 8min 30sec into the flight

    2:06

    Debris seen in sky after SpaceX Starship rocket breaks up after launch – video

    Elon Musk’s company said the spacecraft’s six engines appeared to shut down one by one, with contact lost just 8min 30sec into the flight
  • Prints are from two types of dinosaurs, thought to be the herbivorous cetiosaurus and the carnivorous megalosaurus

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    Drone footage shows dinosaur footprints unearthed in Oxfordshire – video

    Prints are from two types of dinosaurs, thought to be the herbivorous cetiosaurus and the carnivorous megalosaurus
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