<p>The 2025 Nobel laureate on the need for better science communication</p>
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<p>The Nobel laureate on how resilience can help young scientists succeed and why governmental support of science should be bipartisan</p>
<p>The mathematician and former NFL player on the benefits of having a broad background for young people who are interested in science</p>
<p>The university president on narrowing the time between discovery and societal impact</p>
<p>The Caltech president on recommitting to American science</p>
Nu satsar Sverige på att skapa ett nationellt kvalitetsregister för att samla information om alla sällsynta diagnoser.
<p>Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi data</p><p>The rise of AI and digitisation could be a turning point in the “race against extinction” faced by botanists trying to identify and save vital plants before they vanish, according to a major <a href="https://www.kew.org/science/state-of-the-worlds-plants-and-fungi">report</a> from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</p><p>New technology is enabling scientists to track how flowering times have shifted by weeks around the world, rapidly identify new specimens and even get crucial genetic data from 180-year-old fungus specimens, potentially opening a “genomic goldmine”. Digitisation and online access to millions of specimens that were until now only accessible in archives is also producing new insights, especially in the global south.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/16/ai-could-help-win-race-against-extinction-of-vital-plants-say-botanists">Continue reading...</a>
Isar Aerospace is not hurting for money, but it is sorely lacking in the currency of flight experience.
<p>Health advocates criticized Kennedy’s move demanding answers from journal that removed ‘flawed’ vaccine study</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr">Robert F Kennedy Jr</a>, the US health secretary, is demanding answers from a medical journal that recently removed a paper suggesting a link between vaccines and infant death, saying their decision was “of great interest to me”.</p><p>Public health advocates immediately criticized the move, and said Kennedy appeared to be trying to intimidate and influence the journal’s editorial process. The journal Toxicology Reports had removed the paper this spring after editors determined it was so seriously flawed it could harm patients and pose a risk to public health.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/15/rfk-jr-letter-medical-journal-vaccine-study">Continue reading...</a>
A cold blob of water in the North Atlantic points to a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, researchers report.
<p>What does it take for an insect or worm to live full-time on a glacier?</p>
The company's listing raised $87.5bn, compared with the $75bn it was initially thought.
The FDA said it will allow Colorado to import certain prescription drugs from Canada in an effort to bring prices down for residents.
<p>Mikhail Verbitsky was detained at an Armenian airport last Thursday on charges of inciting terrorism</p>
<p>Readers respond to an report on experiments that have shown a left-turn bias among humans</p><p>It is not quite true to say that no one knows why people prefer to turn left and walk anticlockwise (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/10/humans-prefer-to-walk-anticlockwise-scientists-find-reason-unclear">Report, 10 June</a>). Research by the French professor of physiology Raphaël Dubois in the 19th century revealed the existence of a phenomenon in the natural world that he called the “antikinetic gyratory movement”, caused by the rotation of the Earth on its axis.</p><p>During the 1900 Universal Exhibition<strong><em> </em></strong>in<strong><em> </em></strong>Paris, he observed a tendency among visitors to walk anticlockwise. In the years leading up to the first world war, he applied his theory to explain migration (of humans and animals) and war. I documented the latter in an article in the journal Peace & Change in 1986.<br><strong>Dr Peter van den Dungen</strong><br><em>Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/15/raphael-dubois-knew-why-we-walk-anticlockwise">Continue reading...</a>
Will the Sun roast Earth’s plants or starve them?
The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how it got started
IVF could be done inside the body using sperm that have been magnetised, allowing them to be directed to an egg while getting around the need for invasive egg retrievals and embryo transfers
<p>The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has announced a social media ban for under-16s in the UK, as part of an online safety drive that aims to go even further than the world’s first ban, introduced by Australia last year. Many parents have welcomed the proposals, but scientists have pointed to the lack of strong evidence for the efficacy of bans, and some campaigners have argued that the proposal allows social media companies to avoid making meaningful changes on their platforms. Ian Sample is joined by co-host Madeleine Finlay to explore what the evidence indicates about the harms of social media and the impact of banning it outright</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/15/should-we-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
Scientists have long grappled with how to measure the effect of social media on children. Now, the UK government has announced a total ban for everyone under 16, and researchers are rushing to design rigorous studies before it comes into effect
After July 1, Medicare will offer GLP-1 weight-loss drugs for $50. It's supposed to be temporary, but chances are it won't be.
Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many-elementary-particles-are-there-really-20260615/" target="_blank">How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>
A new analysis found that results for less than half of the clinical studies registered in a key European database were reported within the required time frame.
Covid vaccination was also tied to a nearly 24% reduction in all-cause cardiac events in a large study, surprising researchers.
Vitamin K lowers the risk of bleeding, including in a circumcision. That procedure may explain a disparity in which infants are more likely to get the shot.