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‘Sad moments ahead’: Kew Gardens to fell rare trees in race to save Victorian greenhouse

Horticulturalists begin moving and propagating plants before the rusty and warped Palm House begins renovation – but some are too tall to save

Helena Horton and George Francis Lee27 Aug

How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’

People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

Zoe Williams27 Aug

Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds

Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent26 Aug

Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars

Research finds demand has more than doubled since 2000 and 80% of current demand comes from Asia

Kate Ravilious26 Aug

Dogs blink more often when they see owners blinking, study finds

Scientists say research suggests blinking may have acquired a social relevance in interactions between dogs and people

Nicola Davis Science correspondent25 Aug

Starwatch: Lunar eclipse to reward early risers in UK and Europe

Shadow of Earth likely to make moon glow red before dawn on 28 August

Stuart Clark24 Aug

Is this why close encounters with intelligent aliens have so far eluded us?

Letters: Readers offer their explanations for the absence of hard evidence for extraterrestrial civilisations, in response to an article by Adam Kirsch

23 Aug

Artemis II crew to receive top US space medal for historic lunar journey

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen broke record for farthest distance traveled from Earth

Ramon Antonio Vargas23 Aug

Astronomers detect fastest known star in Milky Way

Star’s extreme proximity to Sagittarius A* means it could open new window onto black hole’s fundamental properties

Hannah Devlin science correspondent19 Aug

John Hall obituary

Other lives: Pilot who flew Spitfires and tested the UK’s cold war Lightning fighter jet before moving on to a commercial airline

Colin Smith19 Aug

SpaceX Starship the talk of remote Australian island as Elon Musk’s engineers sent to retrieve it

Christmas Island locals who woke to see the spacecraft floating off the coast hope global attention will encourage tourists

Petra Stock19 Aug

Plantwatch: Cities make a surprising refuge for threatened UK wildflowers

Nooks and crannies in urban areas provide a welcome alternative to intensive farming and other rural pressures

Paul Simons19 Aug

Did you solve it? A new goat for puzzledom’s GOAT

The solution to today’s puzzle

Alex Bellos17 Aug

Can you solve it? A new goat for puzzledom’s GOAT

Take this puzzle by the horns

Alex Bellos17 Aug

Starwatch: Vega the bright star will light the way to the constellation of Lyra

Lyra, the lyre, represents the harp played by the Greek poet Orpheus

Stuart Clark17 Aug

Olga Soffer obituary

Professor of anthropology whose approach to archaeology centred on crafts executed by women 40,000 years ago

Mike Pitts16 Aug

Block export of ‘national treasure’ UK fossils, says MP

Sale of one of UK’s top collections overseas prompts call new rules to help keep items in country

Nicola Davis Science correspondent16 Aug

Science or fiction? Shadowy ‘paper mills’ let you pay to be a published author – of fraudulent research

Paper mill activity has exploded in recent years, polluting the scientific ecosystem with falsified data and compromising medical research

Jackson Ryan15 Aug

‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugs

Users need discretionary income of nearly £100,000 a year to make savings on their grocery spend after paying £1,200 for GLP-1s, analysis finds

Zoe Wood15 Aug

Scientists hope to shed light on young universe by using far side of the moon

UK team seeking to put suitcase-sized satellite in orbit around moon in search for 21cm line radio frequency signal

Nicola Davis Science correspondent14 Aug

‘Colander sales jumped nearly 40%’: how Britons viewed the solar eclipse

Safety advice was followed by almost all the public but the historic event left behind huge quantities of litter and abandoned Lime bikes

Kevin Rawlinson13 Aug