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6 August 2024

  • A Homo floresiensis skull

    ‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

  • 1-3 (2)

    The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms: ‘What life after life could be like’

  • A badger in a cage being injected

    The age of extinction
    Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds

  • Woman and young girl embracing outdoors<br>Woman and young girl embracing outdoors - stock photo

    Science Weekly
    Secrets of ageing: making our last years count – podcast

5 August 2024

  • RICHARD SUART (MAJOR-GENERAL) IN "PIRATES OF PENZANCE" @ COLISEUM (OPENING 4-12-04) TRISTRAM KENTON 12/04 (3 RAVELEY STREET, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

  • Andrew Shore (Major-General Stanley) in The Pirates Of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan @ London Coliseum. An English National Opera Production. (Opening 09-05-15) Tristram Kenton 05/15 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

  • Circular light in the UK night sky

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Perseids to peak in dazzling shower mid-month

  • Trees illuminated by streetlights in the village of Great Barton, in Suffolk, UK

    All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects, study finds

4 August 2024

  • French line engraving of Plutarch, 1541

    Notes and queries
    Who invented mathematics?

  • Casper Henderson shot for OM

    Self and wellbeing
    ‘Ear-marvellous’: how to enjoy the music and sounds of the world that surrounds us

  • A woman holds out five coloured pills in her upturned palms

    Fifth of medicines in Africa may be sub-par or fake, research finds

  • An abstract collage of newspaper headlines

    In brief: The Newsmongers; The Night in Venice; Vital Organs – review

3 August 2024

  • Cross section of the Iter tokamak reactor

    Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

    The 35-nation Iter project has a groundbreaking aim to create clean and limitless energy but it is turning into the ‘most delayed and cost-inflated science project in history’
  • Nathalie Cabrol

    Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol: ‘I believe Mars still has some big surprises for us’

    The director of the Carl Sagan Center on the possibility of life elsewhere in our solar system, what Venus can teach us about global heating, and what she thinks of Elon Musk
  • HM Revenue & Customs note paper with a pen and keyboard

    ‘Free money’: £4bn lost to fraud and error on flagship HMRC ‘innovation’ scheme

    UK tax credits to promote research and development were claimed by a pub for changing its menus and by window cleaners for hanging their buckets

2 August 2024

  • The moon

    Meteorite impacts produce most of moon’s thin atmosphere, study reveals

  • A faceless portrait of Peninah at her homestead in Junju, Kilifi county.

    Pain, organ damage, infertility: the neglected disease that leaves millions of women in agony

  • Mummy of woman with a wide-open mouth

    Egyptian mummy with screaming expression ‘may have died in agony’, say researchers

  • Fadel al-Utol, an archaeologist in Gaza

    Gaza voices
    The Gaza archaeologist: Inflation is 500% – and the tents are like an oven

1 August 2024

  • A fossil seen from the dorsal (top) side (left) with spines covering the body (right).

    Love child of slug and hedgehog: fossils may shed light on early mollusc ancestors

    Rare specimens found in China from 514m years ago thought to be remains of proto-mollusc
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