Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety for the first time, thanks to scans and AI software
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“Women are fully capable of making difficult decisions, but meaningful choice requires trusted, vetted information,” writes Michelle Sie Whitten of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation.
Methadone for opioid addiction has been available only at specialty clinics. A bipartisan bill would greatly expand access.
It's an unusual time to be in the vaccine business. But in the view of those gathered at the BIO conference this week, it’s not altogether a bleak one.
They're laying the groundwork for legislation and regulation to counter Chinese biopharma companies.
The Tarasoff case remains a pivotal marker in bioethics at the bicentennial as we now reach the country’s 250th birthday.
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Sanctuary staff say the litter will help boost population numbers of an endangered British species.
<p>In a chilling new book, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli says we’re back on the brink – and this time, leaders chronically lack the nous of Kennedy and Khrushchev. So why is he against rearming?</p><p>Should European members of Nato be rearming in the face of the Russian threat? And if not, I ask Carlo Rovelli, why not? The Italian theoretical physicist seems a good person to answer these questions since his timely new book, 85 Seconds to Midnight, is subtitled A Physicist’s Argument against Rearmament.</p><p>Rovelli, 70, brown eyed, genial, with enviably luxuriant grey locks, removes his glasses before answering. “The idea of the Russian military being a threat to Europe is ridiculous. Russia can’t even get to Kyiv! A few years ago, Russia had 4% of the world’s military spending and Nato had 40%.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/25/armageddon-physicist-carlo-rovelli-nuclear-apocalypse">Continue reading...</a>
<p>How much do our genes determine about our lives, and could they influence traits like risk-taking, antisocial behaviour or even violence? Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioural geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies how genetic factors shape human behaviour. In her book Original Sin she explores how nature and nurture combine to influence our likelihood of committing crimes, and asks whether the ‘cause’ of our actions matters for how we think about culpability</p><p><strong><a href="https://guardianbookshop.com/original-sin-9781399604338/">Order Original Sin from the Guardian bookshop</a></strong></p><p>Support the Guardian: <a href="http://theguardian.com/sciencepod">theguardian.com/sciencepod</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/jun/25/nature-or-nurture-can-genes-shape-our-behaviour-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
Heat records were broken when temperatures soared across southern England on Wednesday afternoon.
<p><strong>Jenny Kleeman</strong> investigates ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie, the controversial entrepreneur hoping to revolutionise human reproduction by letting parents edit their embryos</p><p>Meet Cathy Tie: serial entrepreneur, self-described “Biotech Barbie”, and the woman aiming to revolutionise reproduction by using Crispr to edit human embryos.</p><p>Beneath the tech-startup polish lies a provocative mission: to take the biological lottery out of the hands of nature and place it into the hands of parents.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/jun/25/the-dawn-of-the-designer-baby-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
<p>The company has just a few hundred satellites in low Earth orbit but has state backing and is already reportedly negotiating with dozens of countries</p><p>Elon Musk’s Starlink has long dominated the satellite internet industry, but a Chinese government-backed project is aiming to challenge its position.</p><p>SpaceSail has just a few hundred satellites in low Earth orbit compared with Starlink’s 10,000-plus. But the company says it now has enough satellites to begin its first commercial application, is scaling up at speed, and is reportedly negotiating with dozens of countries to provide satellite internet coverage.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/25/china-spacesail-rival-elon-musk-starlink-space-satelites-low-earth-orbit">Continue reading...</a>
The small bit of air in the bottle sees oxygen and other chemicals move in and out.
Eli Lilly is investing in a small startup developing a medication to spur hair growth, and potentially also treat endometriosis.
People are getting more care and using lots of GLP-1 drugs, fueling a sharp increase in health care spending.
An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity
We have developed genetic technologies that could wipe out entire species of pests that are harmful to us. Columnist Michael Le Page says the flesh-eating screwworm is the most likely first target
<p>Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago</p><p>Nasa’s Perseverance rover has detected complex carbon molecules in Martian rocks that are already in the spotlight for bearing potential signatures of ancient microbial life.</p><p>Measurements taken by the rover’s Sherloc instrument identified organic carbon in mudstones from the Bright Angel outcrop as it trundled along Neretva Vallis, a dried-up river that carried water into the planet’s Jezero crater billions of years ago.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/24/nasa-rover-detects-potential-signatures-ancient-microbial-life-mars">Continue reading...</a>
These images from photographer Kristin Bethge document Brazil's milk bank system, which provides some of the world's cheapest and safest donated milk to hundreds of thousands of babies
The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.
Feedback isn't sure what to make of a ground-breaking piece of research into the understudied topic of "subjective individual variability in onion tearing and its relationship to chemosensory sensitivity"
The first six months of the year have brought us popular science reads on everything from consciousness to cosmology. Liz Else rounds up her favourites
From the age of legal adulthood to the concept of "profound autism", policy-makers are turning to neuroscience to help shape laws and policies, but the science simply isn't ready
Sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson rounds up her favourite reads of the year to date – and highlights one particular book as her top pick