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<p>The Psyche spacecraft is bound for a metal-rich asteroid that it will examine up close starting in 2029. But first, it needs to swing past the Red Planet</p>
Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the cosmos.
Marty Makary is out, and the Trump administration has a long wish list for its next FDA commissioner.
<p>Pioneering and controversial geneticist who was one of the first to sequence the human genome, in part by using his own DNA</p><p>At the international BioVision conference in Lyon in February 2001, the geneticist Craig Venter performed a remarkable piece of scientific barnstorming. Human beings possess far fewer genes than science had ever realised, he announced. We have about 30,000, far lower than previous estimates of 100,000.</p><p>Such lack of heritable material showed people are not prisoners of their genes but are shaped primarily by environmental influences, he added. “We simply do not have enough genes for this idea of biological determinism to be right,” said Venter, who has died aged 79. “The wonderful diversity of the human species is not hard-wired in our genetic code. Our environments are critical.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/14/craig-venter-obituary">Continue reading...</a>
<p>The rare isotope helium-3 is one of Earth’s most precious commodities—so precious, in fact, that it might prove profitable to mine from the moon</p>
The creaky noise known as vocal fry that people generally associate with young women – and some find irritating – is actually more common in men
Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has costs.
Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them instead will trap the carbon underground for centuries
Ocean heat plus human-caused global warming is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes.
Female rats prefer gentler tickling, a finding that could reshape animal happiness research.
What use is a quantum computer? Perhaps both more and less than you think, according to quantum computing expert Shayan Majidy
<p>Despite decades of damage, the Persian Gulf’s ecological marvels remain—for now</p>
<p>Flecks of minerals captured in diamonds show hidden connections between Earth’s surface and its deep interior</p>
<p>Research suggests depression assessment questionnaires can’t reliably compare people with differing intelligence</p>
Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane stores were disrupted by climate change after the last glacial maximum – and scientists warn it could happen again
Muscle stem cells, which are crucial for building new muscle, don’t work as well as we get older, but giving them an artificial boost could rejuvenate them
<p>You may think you know when someone’s trying to deceive you, but there’s a clever trick very few people are aware of – one that has eluded AI and Traitors contestants alike</p><p>Can you tell if someone is lying?</p><p>Close your eyes. You’re already twice as good as you were before.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/14/hidden-secret-to-spotting-a-liar-voice-inflections">Continue reading...</a>
York Conservation Trust says the Grade I-listed building needs work to its roof and portico.
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<p>Madeleine Finlay sits down with co-host and science editor Ian Sample to discuss three eyecatching stories from the week, including an update on hantavirus. Also on the agenda is the Pentagon’s release of a tranche of never before seen documents relating to UFOs, and a study looking at the link between taking part in cultural activities and slower biological ageing</p><p><em>Clips: News Nation</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/may/14/hantavirus-update-pentagons-ufo-files-can-art-slow-biological-ageing-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Two mothers fought British bureaucracy to obtain lifesaving cannabis medicines for their children. But most patients are having to go private – at huge cost<br></p><p>In the summer of 2012, Britain was in a festive mood. It was the year of the queen’s diamond jubilee and the London Olympics, and the country was celebrating. But for former hairdresser Hannah Deacon and her young family in Warwickshire, it was a summer of ambulances, hospital wards and doctors rushing in and out of emergency rooms.</p><p>Eight months earlier, Deacon had given birth to a healthy baby boy named Alfie. The early months of his life had been challenging for her and her partner, Drew, as they are for any first-time parents, but by the summer, Alfie was sleeping and feeding well, and it felt like the family was settling into the new rhythm. However, one night the couple woke up to find their baby’s little body gripped by a paralysing seizure.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/14/after-a-hard-fought-victory-to-legalise-medical-cannabis-in-the-uk-why-is-it-still-so-hard-to-access">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Heat conditions could exceed dangerous levels at a quarter of the planned 2026 World Cup soccer matches, including the final in New Jersey on July 19</p>
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10620-6Author Correction: Postprandial lipid metabolism durably enhances T cell immunity
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10573-wAuthor Correction: The AIM2 inflammasome exacerbates atherosclerosis in clonal haematopoiesis