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After losing a year to havoc and job-slashing at Nasa, the pressure is on billionaire administrator Jared Isaacman With astronauts set to fly around the moon for the first time in more than half a century when Artemis 2 makes its long-awaited ascent sometime this spring, 2026 was already destined to become a standout year in space. It is also likely to be one of the most pivotal, with new leaders
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Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we examine how the White House’s war on vaccines has left the future of a key technology uncertain and up for grabs The late scientist and thinker Donald Braben argued that 20th-century breakthroughs arose from scientists being free to pursue bold ideas without pressure for quick results or rigid pee
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Kevin Hall spent 21 years at the US National Institutes of Health and became known globally for his pioneering work on ultra-processed foods. In April he unexpectedly took early retirement, citing censorship under the Trump administration. Now he has co-authored a book with the journalist Julia Belluz that aims to bust myths and challenge wellness orthodoxy on everything from weight loss and meta
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Robyn Thomson immunised thousands of animals in Cambodia after shocking death of her mother It was just a scratch. Among all the feelings and thoughts that she has had to wrestle with since the summer, disbelief is the emotion that Robyn Thomson still struggles with the most. “You never think it would happen to you,” said Robyn. “You don’t really think it happens to anyone.” Robyn’s mother, Yvonn
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New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies Daisies and dandelions are among hundreds of native plant species blooming in the UK, in what scientists have called a “visible signal” of climate breakdown disrupting the natural world. A Met Office analysis of data from the annual new year’s plant hunt over the past nine years found an extra
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Peter Foreshaw Brookes says worry about falling sperm counts is misplaced The Italian “demographic winter” has a number of causes, but rising male biological infertility is not one ( A child is born: Italians celebrate village’s first baby in 30 years, 26 December ). A lot of worry about falling sperm counts has been generated by some studies , but a more recent meta‑analysis found, through inclu
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Exclusive: Identifying teenagers at risk could help prevent organ damage, strokes and heart attacks in early adulthood, doctors say Leading doctors have called for a national UK programme to monitor schoolchildren for high blood pressure amid concerns that rising rates in adolescents will increase cases of organ damage, strokes and heart attacks. Rates of high blood pressure have nearly doubled a
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While GLP-1 drugs promise an easy fix, our bodies still need what they have always needed: healthy food and regular exercise Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh If there has been a hot topic in health in 2025, it’s definitely been GLP-1s , colloquially referred to as “anti-obesity” jabs. These medications, taken weekly as an injection into the abdomen
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Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, has landed one of the most coveted jobs in global science. But it is hard not to wonder, when looked at from a certain angle, whether he has taken one for the team. On 1 January, Thomson takes ov
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The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed Death and taxes are supposed to be the things we can depend on in this life. But in 2025, the American entrepreneur Ben Lamm sold much of the world on the idea that death did not, after all, need to be for ever. This wa
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Analysis shows obscure and barely used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time If you have seen a news story declaring 2025’s chosen “word of the year” in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: what, another one? Depending on which dictionary you turn to, the chosen term this year was either Collins’s “vibe coding” , “parasocial” from Cambridge Dictionari
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