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ESA’s Planetary Defence team allays fears 100-metre-wide object could hit Earth’s moon and disrupt satellites Fears that a 100-metre-wide asteroid could be on course to collide with the moon appear to have been misplaced, according to new observations. Discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 was briefly considered the “most dangerous asteroid” in decades after scientists initially estimate
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Study shows animals hear very high frequencies, making it possible to design a deterrent to cut deaths Hedgehogs have been discovered to hear high-frequency ultrasound, raising hopes that they could be deterred from dangerous roads with ultrasound repellers. Vehicles are estimated to kill up to one in three hedgehogs, a big factor in the much-loved mammal’s drastic decline across Europe over rece
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The 600kg Van Allen probe A will re-enter Tuesday evening, with most of it burning before reaching Earth’s surface Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Parts of a giant Nasa satellite will crash to Earth on Tuesday evening, the US space agency is warning – but the chance of being struck is extremely low. According to the US military’s space force, the roug
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UK’s GSK is leading the way in research but AstraZeneca is not involved in the area, report finds The pipeline of new drugs to fight superbugs remains “worryingly thin” and has shrunk by 35% in the last five years, experts have said, predicting the annual number of deaths linked to drug-resistant infections globally will double to 8 million by 2050. The number of antimicrobial projects from large
Mar 9, 2026
Among the many justifications Donald Trump has presented for the US and Israel attacking Iran has been the supposedly imminent threat posed by its nuclear weapons programme. But how close was the country really to developing an atomic weapon? Ian Sample hears from Kelsey Davenport, the director of non-proliferation policy at the Arms Control Association. She sets out why many experts don’t believ
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Scientists hope results analysed after the mice watched video footage will help them understand their perceptions Scientists have reconstructed short movies from the brain activity of mice that watched videos for a project that aspires to lift the veil on how animals perceive the world. The brief movie clips are grainy and pixellated, but provide a glimpse of how mice processed footage that featu
Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced on Monday. Organized by the Annals of Improbable Research, a digital magazine that highlights res
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To some it was a reckless experiment but scientists hope the dispersal of 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine could ease the climate crisis For four days last August, a thick slick of maroon bruised the waters of the Gulf of Maine. The scene, not unlike a toxic red tide, was the result of 65,000 litres of an alkaline chemical, tagged with a red dye, that had been deliberately
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Researchers working to unpick whether daily multivitamin results in people staying healthier as they age Taking a multivitamin every day for two years appears to slow some markers of biological ageing – albeit to a small degree, research suggests. While chronological age is based on how long a person has lived, biological age reflects the state of the body. Estimates of the latter are often based
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As the US space agency misses its launch window for the second month, smaller firms continue work on their parts It was shaping up into another ordinary day at the Colorado headquarters of the small space startup Lunar Outpost last Friday when chief executive Justin Cyrus learned of a surprise press conference called by Jared Isaacman, the new administrator of Nasa. Cyrus’s company epitomises the
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In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life forms Craig Munns has a large model of a T rex on his desk. He got it with a magazine subscription two decades ago. One day, a few years ago, he was sitting in his study, which was dense with books and yellow sticky notes and posters charting evolution from single cells upwar
Mar 8, 2026
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Constellation of Cancer is not easy to locate but reward is the star cluster M44 at its centre The constellation of Cancer, the crab, is now high in the southern sky during the late evening. While not the easiest constellation to locate because it does not contain any truly bright stars, it does offer a reward for patient observation: the star cluster M44, also known as the beehive cluster. Begin
Medical data from 100m people shows risk 122% higher for amphetamine users, 96% higher for cocaine and 37% higher for cannabis Recreational drugs can more than double the risk of stroke, with some of the most concerning impacts seen among younger people, a major review suggests. Scientists analysed medical data from more than 100 million people and found that the risk of stroke was 122% higher fo
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Jane Logan pays tribute to her late husband’s lifelong passion for classifying organisms My late husband, Niall Logan , professor of bacterial systematics at Glasgow Caledonian University, would have been astonished that his lifelong field of academic study, taxonomy, in his case the genus Bacillus , would merit an entire article in the Guardian ( ‘I love midges because I know what their hearts l
Researchers who listen for signs of non-human life say signals ‘can slip below detection thresholds, even if it’s there’ Earth’s leading alien hunters believe extraterrestrials could be out there – they’re just having a hard time getting through to us because it’s stormy in space. Reminiscent of ET’s struggles to “phone home” in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 blockbuster movie , new research by the Sili
Mar 7, 2026
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Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways • Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where? The vast number of overseas human remains held by UK museums is a shameful legacy of colonialism, with many items kept in ways that are sacrilegious, according to MPs and archaeologists. An investigation by the Guardian found that
Mar 6, 2026
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Chief medical adviser warns of side-effects and calls for action on junk food advertising and making food healthier Weight-loss drugs cannot rescue the UK from its deepening obesity crisis and produce unpleasant side-effects for many users, the government’s chief medical adviser has said. Prof Chris Whitty delivered a wide-ranging critique of the drugs during a speech in London on Thursday evenin
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling,
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