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    Big bones
    Victoria the ‘simply terrifying’ T rex arrives at Melbourne Museum

    It took a team of four a week to reassemble the skeleton, which is one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils on Earth
  • Akira Endo headshot

    Akira Endo
    'Remarkable’ scientist who discovered statins, dies aged 90

  • Nasa astronauts Christina Koch (left) and Jessica Meir

    Space
    Women may be more resilient than men to stresses of spaceflight, says study

  • In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution demonstrates that elephants respond to individual names, one of the few animal species known to do so. (George Wittemyer via AP)

    Zoology
    Elephants call each other by name, study finds

  • lab grown meat

    Science Weekly
    Slaughter-free sausages: is lab-grown meat the future? – podcast

  • Picture of the Olympus Mons taken early in the morning with a thin layer of frost on the surface

    Space
    Early morning frost spotted on some of Mars’s huge mountains

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  • Researchers found that blocking sperm and egg production in killifish had an impact on lifespan.

    Why do women outlive men? Cells that develop into sperm and eggs could give the answer

  • Image of  the International Space Station (ISS)

    Nasa says no emergency on board ISS after ‘disturbing’ medical drill accidentally airs

  • A gloved hand is pushing a black cartridge into a white box.

    Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to 45 minutes awarded Longitude prize

  • Seasonal Weather, Sunshine and Showers, Windsor, Berkshire, UK - 10 Jun 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock (14533207b) It was an evening of sunshine and showers as racegoers enjoying horse racing at the Royal Windsor Racecourse Irish Night Monday Night Racing in Windsor, Berkshire Seasonal Weather, Sunshine and Showers, Windsor, Berkshire, UK - 10 Jun 2024

    Wednesday briefing: Why the UK is so chilly this June – and why it won’t get much warmer any time soon

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  • Toby sits on his bed with a stuffed Bagpuss and toy dog on either side behind him

    Childhood, interrupted: 12-year-old Toby’s life with long Covid

  • Lucy Keighley, a former gym owner whose life has become far more limited since contracting long Covid, photographed at home in Stockton-on-Tees

    ‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’: Lucy’s life with long Covid

  • Patrick Vallance

    Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance

  • CHINA-HEALTH-VIRUS<br>This photo taken on January 25, 2020 shows medical staff wearing protective clothing to protect against the deadly COVID-2019 coronavirus as they work at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan. - Doctors on the frontline of China's new coronavirus epidemic are facing a daunting task: treat an ever-growing number of infected patients and risk getting infected themselves due to a drastic shortage of masks and other protective equipment. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-health-virus-hospital,FOCUS by Eva Xiao and Ludovic Ehret (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control; Wuhan: A Documentary Novel – reviews

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  • David Hone

    The super-rich are buying up dinosaur bones – and now they want our near-perfect Stegosaurus

    David Hone
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    A male birth control gel is one step closer to reality, and that’s worth celebrating

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Coco Khan

    A dialogue with your pets? Do you really want a cat to say you look dog-rough today?

    Coco Khan
  • Jonathan Kennedy

    Scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old herpes virus – and perhaps how modern humans came to rule the world

    Jonathan Kennedy
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  • Pedestrians shelter underneath a Union Jack umbrella on a wet Westminster Bridge

    Are cold and wet UK summers here to stay? - podcast

  • A scientist shows "Golden Rice" and ordinary rice at the laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos<br>A scientist shows "Golden Rice" (L) and ordinary rice at the laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Laguna south of Manila, August 14, 2013. Bruce Tolentino, Deputy Director of the International Rice Research Institute, said his team has been perfecting their decades-old research on “Golden Rice”, which consists of genetically-modified rice grains infused with beta-carotene, a chemical substance responsible in producing Vitamin A in the body. He also said,“ In a Vitamin A-enriched rice, what the scientists did was to select three genes out of roughly 30,000 genes in a rice plant. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: FOOD AGRICULTURE BUSINESS)

    Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast

    Ian Sample hears from the Observer science and environment editor, Robin McKie, and from Glenn Stone, a research professor of environmental science at Sweet Briar College in Virginia who is also an anthropologist who has studied golden rice, about why it has taken so long for this potentially life-saving technology to reach the fields, if it is the silver bullet so many had hoped for, and whether this ban is really the end of the story
  • Ancient beech covered in moss and illuminated by sunlight in a dark forest

    Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘The clock is ticking but the world will teach us what we need to do’ – podcast

    Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, tells Madeleine Finlay what we can learn from the most ancient plants on Earth, why we need to cultivate gratitude for the natural world and what western science could learn from Indigenous knowledge
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Key issues

  • Pythagoras of Samos around 570 BC - 510 BC according to Metaponto in the Basilicata. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.<br>CW1WFW Pythagoras of Samos around 570 BC - 510 BC according to Metaponto in the Basilicata. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.

    Physics
    Can you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?

  • Researchers found that blocking sperm and egg production in killifish had an impact on lifespan.

    Biology
    Why do women outlive men? Cells that develop into sperm and eggs could give the answer

    • Space
      Nasa says no emergency on board ISS after ‘disturbing’ medical drill accidentally airs

    • Genetics
      Eagle attacks, red invaders and a genetic bottleneck: inside the fight to save arctic foxes

    • Medical research
      Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to 45 minutes awarded Longitude prize

    • Psychology
      Trauma can leave us emotionally numb – each step towards reconnection is a win

      Diane Young
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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?

  • Stock images at a Coles supermarket. Fruit. Green apples. Melbourne. Australia. generic. oz stock. Groceries.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? How do you like them apples?

  • Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997)

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? How do you like them apples?

  • 1997, THE FULL MONTY<br>DANCE SCENE Film 'THE FULL MONTY' (1997) Directed By PETER CATTANEO 13 August 1997 CTF17258 Allstar/20TH CENTURY FOX You can keep your hat on soundtrack (UK/USA 1997) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of 20TH CENTURY FOX and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To 20TH CENTURY FOX is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Gems from the vault of the National Puzzlers’ League

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Multimedia

  • Boeing's Starliner spacecraft lifts off carrying two Nasa astronauts to ISS – video

  • Gliese 12b is the size of Earth, or slightly smaller, like Venus. And its surface temperature is estimated to be a balmy 42C

    Australian student helps discover potentially habitable planet the size of Earth – video

    Gliese 12b is the size of Earth, or slightly smaller, like Venus. And its surface temperature is estimated to be a balmy 42C
  • A swirling purple and green aurora above silhouetted trees

    Northern lights illuminate skies in US and Canada – in pictures

    Rare sightings of aurora borealis in North America as atmospheric phenomenon fills overnight skies from California to Ontario
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