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  • People in hard hats and lab coats inside a lab surrounded by large metal drums and other pieces of equipment

    Exclusive
    UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout

    British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three years
  • Trees silhouetted by the Milky Way

    Starwatch
    Famous comet’s yearly meteor shower will be spectacular display

  • close up of a pair of gloved hands preparing a syringe

    Measles
    World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says

  • Experts said the embalming process was very different from that used in ancient Egypt.

    Austria
    Mummy mystery solved: ‘air-dried’ priest was embalmed via rectum

  • Rear view of Alexis Mac Allister looking at crowd

    Liverpool
    Scientists record seismic tremors from title-clinching Liverpool win over Spurs

  • Europe at night from space

    Space
    Soviet-era spacecraft expected to plunge uncontrolled to Earth next week

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  • Two adults with a several younger gorillas, one of which is being groomed

    Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study

  • Linda Geddes stood in front of a pile of food

    Online tests revealed I have a multitude of food sensitivity issues – but are they trustworthy?

  • Two pairs of lips about to kiss.

    People with coeliac disease should not fear kissing gluten-eaters, say scientists

  • Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen

    France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe

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  • person wearing yellow top and black pants walks past tan building

    How ‘revenge of the Covid contrarians’ unleashed by RFK Jr puts broader vaccine advances at risk

  • a person walking at a train station with no one around

    ‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?

  • A smog cloud hanging over Barcelona

    Are rising lower respiratory infection hospital admissions linked to dirty air?

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr

    Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

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  • People sit facing away from the camera on chairs in a large tent labelled 'Taso' and 'Living positively with HIV'

    Three ways to help the developing world survive the end of aid

    Winnie Byanyima
  • The planet Mars

    The Guardian view on owning the heavens: the perils of letting capitalism colonise the cosmos

  • illustration of side-profile silhouettes of people filled in with space-related art

    How space exploration can improve life on Earth

    Leigh Phillips
  • Nathalie Cabrol

    Is there really life on planet K2-18b? We can’t rule it out, but some key questions must be answered

    Nathalie Cabrol
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  • DNA strand

    How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast

  • Three people sit with drinks at a table lit by a battery lamp amid darkness

    Why did Spain and Portugal go dark? – podcast

    Authorities are still trying to understand what triggered the massive power outage that left the majority of the Iberian Peninsula without electricity on Monday. To understand what might have been at play, and whether there’s any truth to claims that renewable energy sources were to blame, Ian Sample hears from Guardian energy correspondent Jillian Ambrose. And Guardian European community affairs correspondent Ashifa Kassam explains what it was like to experience the blackout and how people reacted
  • Just Stop Oil<br> The event billed as the final Just Stop Oil protest. The group slow marched from St James Park to the Royal Courts of Justice and then outside the Shell building on the Southbank where they symbolically took off their hi-vis bibs and hung them on a line outside.

    Why did Just Stop Oil just stop? – podcast

    Just Stop Oil, the climate activism group behind motorway blockades, petrol station disruption and tomato soup attacks on major artworks, has disbanded after staging a final action in London this weekend. Madeleine Finlay hears from our environment correspondent Damien Gayle who has been covering Just Stop Oil since its inception. He explains how policy wins and policing crackdowns combined to bring the movement to a close, and what the future of climate activism could look like in its wake
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Key issues

  • A meteorite from the Perseid shower. Photograph: Daniel Damaschin/Alamy

    Physics
    It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-sac – podcast

  • DNA strand

    Biology
    How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast

    • Space
      What is the Eta Aquariids meteor shower? And where and when can I see it in Australia?

    • Genetics
      How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast

    • Medical research
      How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast

    • Psychology
      In a culture obsessed with positive thinking, can letting go be a radical act?

      Nadine Levy
  • Cyd Charisse with husband Tony Martin at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico circa 1954<br>HD1420 Cyd Charisse with husband Tony Martin at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico circa 1954

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? How to have fun with straws

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? How to have fun with straws

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    Mathematics
    Did you solve it? That’s numberwang!

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? That’s numberwang!

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Multimedia

  • Sea lion who grooves to Boogie Wonderland proves animals can keep a beat – video

  • Don Pettit became a septuagenarian as he landed back on Earth after a seven-month mission onboard the International Space Station.
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    Nasa’s oldest astronaut celebrates 70th birthday while hurtling back to Earth – video

    Don Pettit became a septuagenarian as he landed back on Earth after a seven-month mission onboard the International Space Station.
  • They used a rocket owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur
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    Katy Perry and Blue Origin crew return safely to Earth after space flight – video

    They used a rocket owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur
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