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Sophia Herod looks at how the Moon can be lit by sunlight reflected from the Earth.
<p>Desperate US parents pay up to $20,000 a session for a procedure scientists say could be bogus</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/autism">Autistic</a> children as young as 18 months old are being injected with human stem cells derived from umbilical cords in unapproved, unproven and potentially harmful “treatments” that scientists warn are proliferating across the US under the active encouragement of the US health secretary, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr">Robert F Kennedy Jr</a>.</p><p>Clinics in Florida, Texas and other states are selling what they bill as “regenerative medicine” to families with autistic children who have intensive care needs. Parents who have taken their children through the process talked to the Guardian about their hopes and fears for a therapy that appears to be gaining ground in the US.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/12/autism-stem-cell-infusions-rfk-jr">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Reusable rockets and Starlink made Elon Musk’s company dominant in spaceflight. Its record valuation leans on making Starship flights routine and orbital AI data centers real</p>
<p>Meteor camera networks can reveal the hidden history of the solar system, and you can assist from your own backyard</p>
<p>Extremely curved spacetime can warp cause and effect, creating channels for backward communication</p>
<p><img width="1024" height="576" src="https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Trollslanda med guldbrun färg och genomskinliga vingar sitter på en gren." decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren-300x169.jpg 300w, https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren-768x432.jpg 768w, https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren-850x478.jpg 850w, https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren-310x174.jpg 310w, https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren-1102x620.jpg 1102w, https://forskning.se/app/uploads/2026/06/trollslanda-gren.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p>De korsar oceaner, glider på monsunvindar och kan dyka upp på nya platser efter tusentals kilometer i luften. Nu visar en ny studie att trollsländor tillhör naturens mest extrema migranter – och att deras resor kan hjälpa oss att förstå klimatförändringarna.</p>
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<p>A linguist lays out what communicating with aliens could actually involve—and what that tells us about human language</p>
The BBC's Michelle Fleury spoke to Tom Mueller, who was one of the company's founders alongside Elon Musk in 2002.
<p>UN agency head warns of ‘major threat’ as global testing and treatment falls</p><p>A funding crisis and increasing repression of human rights are making the resurgence of an HIV epidemic more likely, the international agency tackling Aids has warned.</p><p>Winnie Byanyima, head of UNAids, said: “It’s the biggest disruption since the global HIV response was put together and it poses a major threat to the progress we have had.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/12/health-aids-disease-hiv-infection-unaids-funding-tests-cuts-risk-epidemic">Continue reading...</a>
Forskare har studerat trollsländornas migration.
In the face of loneliness, many people are turning to AI chatbots for companionship – but research shows it can’t replace human connection. Columnist David Robson explores how beneficial it can be to talk to strangers, with evidence-based tips on how to get the conversation flowing
<p>I think I’ll leave new methods to measure biological age to the Kardashians. Too much knowledge about your mortality can be bad for your health</p><p>In the season 5 finale of The Kardashians, the family took a <a href="https://www.trudiagnostic.com/">commercially available blood test</a> to discover how fast their bodies were ageing. It came as little surprise, given their privileged lifestyles, that the reality TV stars were said to be ageing more slowly than most mortals of the same age. Khloé, then 39, found she had a <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1052694">biological age of 28</a>. Cue <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/07/25/entertainment/khloe-kardashian-40-learns-her-biological-age-is-28/">whoops of joy</a> and much smugness.</p><p>The Kardashians join a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/goop-labs-health-span-are-vegan-fasting-diets-anti-aging-2020-1">growing list</a> of <a href="https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity-news/katy-perry-justin-trudeau-address-age-gap">celebrities</a> who have taken similar tests and then crowed about their “biological ages”. Now, there’s a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10542-3">new test</a> on the block.</p><p>Helen Pilcher is a science writer and the author of <a href="https://guardianbookshop.com/this-book-may-cause-side-effects-9781805461432/">This Book May Cause Side Effects</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/12/science-ageing-test-die-impressive-mortality-molecular-clock">Continue reading...</a>
A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually beat the accuracy of today’s best atomic clocks
För många med depression handlar sjukdomen inte bara om nedstämdhet, utan också om minskad motivation och svårigheter att uppskatta aktiviteter man tidigare tyckt om. En studie...
The BBC's Samira Hussain explains everything you need to know about SpaceX's historic IPO.
“American science is too valuable to be turned into a political football,” writes David J. Skorton, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Hospital execs agree that affordability is a major issue. What to do about it is less clear.
“Failing to engage religious and traditional leaders in meaningful ways was a grave misstep in previous Ebola outbreaks,” researchers write.
Many in the diabetes research community expressed shock and disbelief that their colleagues were threatened with arrest for passing out paper copies of an editorial.
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The BBC's Michelle Fleury spoke to Tom Mueller, who was one of the company's founders alongside Elon Musk in 2002.
STAT is tracking goals and promises of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement — successes, incompletes, and fails.
<p>Doctors say therapy that genetically modifies person’s T-cells could offer cure for chronic autoimmune disease</p><p>Five lupus patients in England are in remission after being treated with a revolutionary therapy that genetically modifies their own cells, in a medical breakthrough that could offer people a cure, doctors have said.</p><p>CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T-cell therapy involves removing a type of white blood cell also called T lymphocytes, which are crucial for hunting out infected or damaged cells, and engineering them to spot and destroy disease. The T-cells are then fed back into the patient via an infusion to reset their immune system.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/12/lupus-patients-in-remission-england-nhs-trial-genentically-modified-t-cell-therapy">Continue reading...</a>
Adult finches make "heat calls" as the temperature rises. Exposure to the song prepares their unhatched young's brains for the heat.