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Litter was left all over the Cardingmill Valley after an "exceptionally busy" bank holiday weekend.
<p>Last month at Beijing’s half marathon, a robot named Lightning beat the human world record by nearly seven minutes. It’s the latest in a string of AI-powered milestones that have got people wondering whether robots are about to enter our everyday lives, just as chatbots have. And the country leading the charge is China, where the government has pledged to invest more than £100bn in robotics over the next 20 years. To find out how robots are already entering the workforce, and what needs to happen to get them cleaning our homes and weeding our gardens, Ian Sample hears from the Guardian’s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins, and from Nathan Lepora, professor of robotics and AI at Bristol University, who researches how robots can achieve human-like dexterity</p><p><em>Clips:</em> <em>Global News, BBC, CGTN</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/may/28/are-robots-nearing-their-chatgpt-moment-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
The case centres on contamination caused by PFAS in the foam at dozens of defence sites.
National Trust staff and volunteers will apply 17 tonnes of fresh chalk to the outline of the famous figure.
A stem cell-based heart patch improved pumping in a small trial for advanced heart failure. "Very good first step," researcher says.
<p>The satellite visuals reveal vast burn scars after blaze tore through rare ecosystems on Santa Rosa Island</p><p></p><p>Images from a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/nasa">Nasa</a> satellite showcased the devastating scars left behind by a wildfire that consumed roughly a third of Santa Rosa Island, one of the five that make up Channel Islands national park off the southern California coast.</p><p>Taken on 20 May, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (Modis) took the false-color image of the burn area, showing swaths of blackened land.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/santa-rosa-island-california-wildfire-damage">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Generating and confirming the randomness of qubits could lead to breakthroughs in computer data encryption</p>
The black hole accounts for over two-thirds the mass of the object it inhabits.
"We aren’t trading speed for scale; we are demanding both," says the military's program manager.
From Kenya's Tree of Life to a Svalbard glacier, these stunning photos are taken from a new book by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, whose The Earth From Above was a smash hit 25 years ago
The New Scientist Book Club read Silvia Park's near-future sci-fi novel Luminous in May, and had lots of good things to say (along with a few complaints)
Inspired by Shannon Vallor's book The AI Mirror, this compelling piece looks at how we are being affected by our deepening interactions with tech
<p>The discarded fragments of this creature apparently refuse to die, leading researchers to claim immortality</p>
The ideas of survival of the fittest and winning at all costs are closely entwinned with Darwinism, but they shouldn’t be. A rethink from a more communal perspective is in order
Watson's death last month prompted sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson to read his acclaimed 1973 debut and find out what she'd been missing. She found it fascinating – but reflective of its time
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We asked, you answered. Feedback wondered what adjective would best describe the Wikipedia page for the Ship of Theseus paradox. As a reminder, the paradox asks whether it’s the same ship if every single component has been replaced, and the Wiki page for it has been edited so much that nothing of the original remains, making it an exemplar of the thing it describes.
Sifting through the resulting mailbag, we see a great many suggestions, ranging from Tim Moulsley’s “autoparadigm” to Bryn Glover’s “autocausative”.
Martin Bastone was one of many readers who took inspiration from the British comedy Only Fools and Horses , in which the dim-witted road sweeper Trigger gets a medal for saving the council money, thanks to his having used the same broom for 20 years – with the minor caveat that it has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles . Martin therefore suggests the Ship of Theseus Wiki page be described as “triggering”.
However, it seems there may be a correct answer. It was identified by Peter Jeffery and Peter Gutfreund (who sounds nice), among others, and it is “autological”. An autological word “expresses a property that it also possesses”, according to Wikipedia. Peter Thomson offers some examples of autological words: “‘noun’ is a noun, ‘sesquipedalian’ is sesquipedalian”.
There is some question as to whether autological can be used to describe only individual words, in which case, we can’t apply it to the entire Wikipedia article. So if “we need a distinct word for articles”, says Philip Penton, “may I propose ‘autobroomian’.”
Mairi McKissock also got the answer, and then went deeper. “Digging into this then led me to the opposite term: heterological (a word that does not describe itself),” she writes. For instance, the word “monosyllabic” is distinctly polysyllabic…
The Secrets of Our DNA Turi King UK, Doubleday; US, Transworld Digital
In 1993, a 62-year-old woman in the town of Idar-Oberstein in Germany was found strangled with florist wire. DNA found on a coffee cup suggested that two people were present besides the victim and that one of the apparent killers was a woman.
In 2001, the suspected female murderer’s DNA turned up again in Germany, this time on the body of a strangled 61-year-old man in Freiburg. Then her DNA started appearing at crime scenes in France and Austria, too.
In 2007, the mysterious woman hit the headlines when two police officers were shot – one fatally – in their car in the German city of Heilbronn, and her DNA was found in the back seat. These killings sparked a major hunt for “the Phantom of Heilbronn”, as she became known.
But the Phantom proved elusive, despite being linked to 41 crimes via her DNA. In some cases, her accomplices were caught, but they denied that any woman was involved. Police started to consider the possibility that the phantom was transgender. It wasn’t until 2009 that the Phantom was finally identified – as a woman who worked in a factory that made swabs for DNA testing. The Phantom of Heilbronn really was a phantom – police had wasted years chasing a non-existent killer.
“There are definitely instances when DNA is not the silver bullet people think it is,” writes Turi King in The Secrets of Our DNA: How genetics has changed the world .
King studied archaeology initially, but switched to genetics after being enthralled by a lecture describing how DNA was used to show that a man who drowned in Brazil in 1979 was, in fact, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor known as the Angel of Death.
“What has always hooked me about DNA has been the stories, the cases where the DNA was the key to answer a question, solve a mystery, help someone answer a long-held family mystery, provide information as to their propensity for genetic disease, exonerate someone, help convict someone, or hel…
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The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane — but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.
Tents, towels and children's clothing were among hundreds of items left on a beach, a community group says.
<p>At an event at NASA Headquarters event, space agency officials unveiled the first rovers and landers headed to the future site of its planned lunar south pole outpost</p>
Embryo organoids made from stem cells are enabling scientists to recreate early pregnancy in the lab, unlocking treatments for infertility, miscarriage and pre-eclampsia
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<p>En studie vid Lunds universitet har undersökt vilken betydelse blomrika vägkanter har för humlor. Sådana vägkanter kan fungera som viktiga livsmiljöer för växter och ge föda åt pollinerande insekter. Samtidigt innebär livet nära vägar även risker. Trafik och buller kan störa insekterna och det finns även en risk att de dödas av bilar på vägarna. […]</p>
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<p>Debate still swirls around the nature of “little red dots,” black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope. A controversial new weigh-in may settle the matter</p>