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Tre forskningsprojekt från Lunds universitet har valts ut till Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademiens (IVA) 2026-lista.
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Growing legislative scrutiny across multiple states targets the corporate structure underlying most direct-to-consumer telehealth businesses.
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<p>Exclusive: First shipwrecks found in Nassau harbour on New Providence, once the hideout of Blackbeard and Calico Jack</p><p>The first shipwrecks linked to the real pirates of the Caribbean in the Bahamas have been discovered by an international team co-directed by a British marine archaeologist.</p><p>Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham were among pirates who, between the 1690s and 1720s, turned Nassau on the island of New Providence into a hideout where they plotted their next heists on the high seas and divided up their plunder.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/shipwrecks-evidence-real-pirates-of-the-caribbean-nassau-harbour-bahamas">Continue reading...</a>
John McFall takes one step closer to becoming first disabled astronaut.
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<p>Kevin Minto’s discovery near Ilminster, showing goddess Victoria, has been acquired with coin hoard for £78,000</p><p>When Kevin Minto, a lorry driver, former soldier and keen metal detectorist, came upon something glinting in a Somerset field, he thought at first it was a coin – potentially quite interesting, probably not amazing.</p><p>But the object turned out to be extraordinary: a gold Roman ring, unusually large and exquisitely crafted, set with a finely engraved gemstone depicting the goddess Victoria driving a two-horse chariot.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/02/somerset-detectorist-roman-ring-find-ilminster">Continue reading...</a>
A farmer says he is having to remove litter from his fields on a daily basis.
About 300 water voles are released in Farnham as part of a bid to restore the species to the river.
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<p>John McFall prepares for mission to Haven-1 space station after UK Space Agency signs deal with US startup Vast</p><p>A British Paralympian and surgeon could become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit after the government signed a deal with a US company that is building a small commercial space station.</p><p>John McFall, a member of the European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut reserve, was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/14/british-paralympian-first-person-physical-disability-space-mission">cleared for activities in orbit last year</a> and could take part in a mission to the Haven-1 space station soon after its proposed launch in 2027.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/02/british-paralympian-john-mcfall-astronaut-disability-space-station-haven-1-vast">Continue reading...</a>
<p>For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took me up close</p><p>The aurochs, the mammoth and the steppe bison are long extinct, but their painted likenesses still look relatively fresh across the walls and roofs of Altamira. Or so said Diego Garate Maidagan, who is one of the very few humans allowed to enter that exalted cave in northern Spain.</p><p>I met Garate last summer in a small Basque village called Gautegiz Arteaga. A professor of prehistory and Palaeolithic art at the University of Cantabria, he told me he’d been inside Altamira as recently as the week before, furthering his lifelong investigations of the prep work, tools and methodologies developed by early Homo sapiens painters.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/02/journey-into-spain-palaeolithic-cave-paintings-altamira">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Humans have been wondering why we sleep for thousands of years. Is sleep’s purpose rest and relaxation, memory consolidation or maybe cognitive processing? In the last 15 years, scientists have discovered another possible explanation – waste disposal. In 2012 neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard’s lab discovered that the brain has its own cleaning process, the glymphatic system, which clears away unhelpful proteins and metabolic byproducts, and only switches on at night. Since that groundbreaking discovery we’ve learned more about what drives this system and, importantly, how it could be impacting dementia. To understand more, Ian Sample talks to Prof Nedergaard about how she made the original discovery and how subsequent work is building a picture of sleep as anything but a quiet and inactive state</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/13/the-battle-to-boost-our-deep-sleep-and-help-stop-dementia">The battle to boost our deep sleep – and help stop dementia</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/02/the-incredible-science-of-the-sleeping-brain-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
How Gödel numbers let you do math with math itself
By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved
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Last week I explained how a then 25-year-old logician, Kurt Gödel, overturned a basic assumption of many mathematicians in the early 20th century. Even as experts were building a seemingly firm foundation for all mathematics, Gödel demonstrated that this effort would never answer every question.
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Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are among the most fascinating results in mathematics. They have revolutionized the subject—and disillusioned scientists. But in addition to their far-reaching consequences, his ideas fascinated his colleagues by being able to say something about the capabilities of a mathematical system while operating within that system.
That is, Gödel used the computational rules and logical inferences that follow from the foundational axioms of mathematics (the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice, or ZFC) to make statements about that system itself. This was a brilliant feat that no one had ever accomplished before.
To do this, he developed an approach that involved assigning a unique number to each mathematical statement. Instead of writing, for example, “for every number m , there is another number n greater than m ,” he defined a corresponding natural number (which is very large) from which the statement could be derived. The coding is not even that complicated: Gödel assigned the so-called Gödel numbers 1 to 12 to the 12 basic logical operation…
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Trump’s psychedelics executive order could accelerate new treatments—including for children
The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors
President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at fast-tracking research into the medical use of psychedelics will almost certainly open the door to experimenting with psychedelic therapies for children and eventually prescribing them, experts say.
Flanked by podcaster Joe Rogan and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. , Trump signed the order on April 18. The text of the order mentions federally banned psychedelics as promising options for the concerning number of Americans who are struggling with mental, behavioral and emotional disorders. And it points specifically to the roughly 6,000 military veterans who die by suicide every year. There is no mention of minors.
At least one company is already seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for a treatment involving psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, and the agency has also issued priority vouchers to companies investigating the compound’s effectiveness in treating depression. But if these drugs are ultimately approved for use in adults in the U.S., clinicians and pharmaceutical companies could, at some point, target them to people under the age of 18.
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“It’s inevitable, because once the drug gets approved, then you start moving down that age timeline and testing kids,” says Dominic Sisti, an associate professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
The FDA requires more guardrails for drug trials in children than it does for those in adults.…
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