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Australian politics live: Joyce likens US public execution to ‘Roman amphitheatre’; Coalition targets small business minister over credit card ban•
Country diary: Fungi season is here, so I head – yes – to the beach•
Treasure Island review – this TV stinker does its best to ruin a literary classic•
Pine cones, glitter and a hip-hop head for sale: red-hot artists reveal their Frieze stunners•
IFS: budget will be ‘work of fiction’ without clear plan to cover UK spending pressures•
Atlanta Dream scrambling to find WNBA finals venue amid scheduling conflicts•
Detained Australian engineer Robert Pether has left Iraq after being jailed in 2021•
‘Absolutely senseless’: Boy, 13, charged with murder after man stabbed to death in Sydney’s west •

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Science

Discoveries, research and the latest from the world of science.

27,618 stories · Page 1 of 1316

Feelgood factor of human interaction

17h ago

Skies across the UK illuminated by the northern lights

Though mostly visible near the Arctic Circle, the natural phenomenon dazzled sky-gazers as far south Devon, Hampshire and Kent

Nadeem Badshah1d ago

Ada Yonath obituary

Nobel prizewinning biochemist who succeeded against the odds in mapping the ribosome

Mick O'Hare2d ago

Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’

Donna Lu3d ago

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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies aged 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom

Uwa Ede-Osifo4d ago

Jonathan the giant tortoise, 194, offers up insight into secrets of longevity

DNA analysis of oldest living land animal reveal patterns on genes that appear to protect functioning of mitochondria

Ian Sample Science editor4d ago

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules

Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai awarded prize for discovery that has aided understanding of how medicines work in the body

Linda Geddes4d ago

Making scents: could AI help perfumers take pressure off endangered plants?

Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical

Amelia Hill5d ago

Nobel prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen for south pole work on neutrinos

Belgian physicist praised for work on the IceCube detector that observes the ghost-like particles in Antarctica

Ian Sample Science editor5d ago

Nobel prize in medicine 2026 awarded for research into mysteries of brain

Three scientists to share 12m Swedish kronor prize for their work on ‘light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’

Nicola Davis Science correspondent6d ago

Starwatch: how to spot Saturn as it makes it closest approach to Earth this year

The planet looks like a moderately bright, creamy-white object and is easily visible to the naked eye

Stuart Clark5 Oct

Skull fractures suggest servants of Egypt’s ancient kings were sacrificed

Study of remains taken from royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab appears to confirm early Egyptologist’s theory

Nicola Davis Science correspondent5 Oct

Do humans really have a ‘lizard brain’ lurking beneath our rational minds?

It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different

Hannah Critchlow4 Oct

‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of Christianity

Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore

Esther Addley30 Sept

All of a flutter: how butterflies avoid being a predator’s lunch

Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study finds

Steven Morris30 Sept

Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi

Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiome

Steven Morris30 Sept

‘Godzilla’ of weight-loss drugs could provide other important health benefits

Though not yet approved by any regulatory agency, Retatrutide could help improve blood sugar levels and reduce inflammation

Andrew Gregory Health editor29 Sept

‘Starship is in orbit’: cheers go up as huge SpaceX rocket circles Earth for first time

Mission goes ahead despite some fears an initial engine failure after the Texas launch would scupper the attempt

Ian Sample Science editor28 Sept

Gene-edited bananas that don’t go brown could hit UK supermarkets

Scientific breakthrough could reduce food waste and make it easier to add the fruit to prepackaged food

Nicola Davis Science correspondent28 Sept

Did you solve it? Isaac Newton’s tower drop puzzle

The solution to the seventeenth century stumper

Alex Bellos28 Sept