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Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find

Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests

Ian Sample Science editor26 Jul

Millions of people are losing weight using GLP-1s. How do the drugs affect their love lives?

Prescribing doctors often warn of the medications’ potential side-effects – but unexpected impacts on romantic relationships are less understood

Mridula Amin25 Jul

‘Ozempic face’ and hair loss: what evidence is there for weight-loss drug side-effects?

Research into GLP-1 medications is not always robust but complaints such as digestive problems are well known

Nicola Davis Science correspondent25 Jul

Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?

Investigation finds evidence of distinct groups, from big-picture thinkers to those who sweat the small stuff

Ian Sample Science editor25 Jul

Tell us: what impact have GLP-1s had on your relationships?

We want to hear about how weight-loss drugs have affected your relationships – whether you are a GLP-1 user or not

Guardian community team24 Jul

Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side

Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic

Mark Brown North of England correspondent 24 Jul

Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn

New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction

Tom Perkins23 Jul

Rivers of magma once bubbled beneath crust of Mars, research suggests

Finding widens selection of rocky planets that may once have been habitable

Kate Ravilious22 Jul

Zendaya faces backlash for wearing ancient Iranian jewellery at Odyssey event

Film star promotes Christopher Nolan film epic wearing gold artefacts dating back almost 3,000 years

Ellie Violet Bramley21 Jul

Milky Way flipped in collision with dwarf galaxy 10bn years ago, astronomers say

Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position

Ian Sample Science editor21 Jul

Did you solve it? Do you think like a physicist?

The answer to today’s puzzle

Alex Bellos20 Jul

Can you solve it? Do you think like a physicist?

A scorching puzzle about heat

Alex Bellos20 Jul

Starwatch: Identifying the Scorpion, mythical adversary of Orion

The full constellation can be frustrating to track down in the UK owing to its low presence in the southern sky

Stuart Clark20 Jul

Earth-like exoplanet found to have an atmosphere

Scientists discover the first confirmed atmosphere around rocky planet outside our solar system that is within the habitable zone

Nicola Davis Science correspondent16 Jul

Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup

Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of training

Ian Sample Science editor16 Jul

Deaf people excluded from gene-editing debate

Letter: There is no majority support for use of gene editing on non-life-threatening conditions, writes Tom Lichy of the British Deaf Association

15 Jul

Wally Funk obituary

Pioneering American aviator who was the oldest woman to fly into space aged 82 in 2021

Michael Carlson15 Jul

One small pen for one giant fee: Buzz Aldrin’s mission-saving felt-tip sells for over $850,000

Second man on moon’s Duro Rocket pen, crucial to Apollo 11 return, reaches astronomical sum at Sotheby’s auction

Paul Owen15 Jul

Plantwatch: Beware a tasty mushroom with a powerful hallucinogen

Anyone eating Lanmaoa asiatica could have visions for days of tiny people running and jumping around

Paul Simons15 Jul

Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male

Hannah Devlin Science Correspondent14 Jul