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Is culture alive?

From Mozart to Madonna, dim sum to doughnuts, Shakespeare to Sartre – not all forms of life need DNA

Jonathan Loh20 Sept

The US air force admitted to deploying weapons in space. Don’t expect the White House to explain why

The revelation ‘left experts scratching their heads at exactly what Donald Trump has in his cosmic arsenal’

Richard Luscombe19 Sept

Tech billionaires trying to live for ever? That’s a waste of time, says physicist

Exclusive: Prof Jim Al-Khalili says he will offer solution to ‘arrow of time’ problem in Royal Institution lectures

Nicola Davis Science correspondent18 Sept

‘Very messy eaters’: scientists solve the mystery of when black holes ‘burp’

The astronomical bodies fire off powerful jets in two distinct phases in their feeding cycle, researchers discover

Donna Lu 17 Sept

Climate crisis probably weakened glacier that caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, first study finds

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

Damien Gayle16 Sept

Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’

Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds

Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent16 Sept

Scientists create mice with part-human brains

Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia

Ian Sample Science editor16 Sept

Plantwatch: The insect-eating alpine plant that proves Darwin was right

Study shows alpine plant traps and digests midges – just as the evolutionary biologist predicted back in 1875

Paul Simons16 Sept

UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions

Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines

Ian Sample Science editor16 Sept

US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space

Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit

Oliver Holmes15 Sept

Did you solve it? Do you have the brain of an engineer?

The answers to today’s puzzles

Alex Bellos14 Sept

Can you solve it? Do you have the brain of an engineer?

Hacks from the hidden world of test engineering

Alex Bellos14 Sept

Starwatch: A Venus-spotting challenge with a beautiful reward

The bright planet and the young crescent moon will make an attractive pairing on Monday evening

Stuart Clark14 Sept

‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp

As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change

Ian Sample Science editor12 Sept

Every day should be D-day for weather forecasters

Letter: Margaret Squires responds to an article about the wartime meteorologist James Stagg, whose work is dramatised in a new film

11 Sept

‘Patients’ who pay $200,000 to be frozen after death are waiting to be reborn in an Australian shed

Exclusive: Southern Cryonics operates out of a shed in Holbrook in rural NSW. Experts say reanimation is ‘a dream’ but true believers are willing to pay for a second chance at life

Catie McLeod10 Sept

Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds

Analysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance in what may be earliest known evidence for human drug taking

Ian Sample Science editor9 Sept

OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours

Ian Sample and Dan Milmo8 Sept

How meteorologists recreated weather that helped decide second world war

Experts helped guide weather scenes in Pressure – a film depicting dramatic buildup to 1944’s D-day landings

Nicola Davis Science correspondent8 Sept

Konstantinos Politis obituary

Archaeologist who spent his career excavating and protecting the sites and artefacts of Jordan’s Dead Sea shore

James Fraser7 Sept