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Inside the longevity conference that brings together founders, investors, biohackers, and the generally death-averse to discuss how to forestall — or even beat — our demise.
Stanford Health Care started asking patients about new AI tools before they are implemented. Here's what patients are telling them.
If you've been vaccinated against Covid-19, some patients might not want your donated blood.
“Trump has willingly exposed an entire generation of children to Big Tobacco’s nicotine addiction,” writes Sen. Dick Durbin.
“Science itself is inherently resilient — that is, after all, why it’s science,” writes Jonathan Jackson.
<p>Calaminarian grassland is a rare habitat where plants thrive in soils contaminated by heavy metals. But should these toxic meadows be protected or allowed to fade away?</p><p>At first, the small purple flowers are hard to spot in the weak May sunshine. Slowly the drifts of delicate mountain pansies, along with the white rosettes of alpine pennycress, begin to jump out, scattered across an area little bigger than a football pitch, on the banks of the River Allen in Northumberland.</p><p>This is a pocket of calaminarian grassland, an increasingly rare habitat where specialist plants called metallophytes have adapted to live in soils deeply contaminated by heavy metals, the legacy of more than 1,000 years of lead mining.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/27/blossoming-spoil-heaps-plants-metallophytes-heavy-metal-aoe">Continue reading...</a>
Forskare har undersökt hur humlor klarar sig vid skånska vägkanter.
<p>Two scientists have described the bright fireball, crackling noise and sonic boom of the impact 66m years ago</p><p>What would it have been like to have lived through the meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66m years ago? Writing in <a href="https://theconversation.com/what-it-would-have-been-like-to-experience-the-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-armageddon-a-blow-by-blow-account-271786">the Conversation</a>, Michael Benton, of the University of Bristol, and Monica Grady, of the Open University, describe in vivid detail how it might have felt.</p><p>The first sign that something was amiss would have been a new star visible for about a week before the event. Upon its arrival, all living creatures near the impact site would have seen the bright fireball, heard its crackling noise and experienced a sonic boom before being swiftly incinerated.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/27/dinosaur-killer-meteorite-impact-vivid-detail-terrawatch">Continue reading...</a>
<p>A new study could help identify promising treatments to extend the human lifespan, researchers say</p>
Mid-Suffolk Council hopes to enhance wildlife in the area and improve public access.
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<p>‘Gender attractiveness gap’ appears across cultures and over centuries but difference fades away with age</p><p>Women’s faces are rated as more attractive than men’s, even by other women, but the perceived gap declines with age and all but vanishes by the time people reach their 80s, researchers have said.</p><p>The work appears to confirm the existence of a “gender attractiveness gap”, an observation reflected in centuries of language that present women as “the fairer sex”, “das schöne Geschlecht”, “le beau sexe”, and far more beyond Europe.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/27/women-faces-rated-more-attractive-study">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Experts say climate change linked to 10% rise in salmonella antibiotic resistance genes between 1940 and 2023</p><p>The climate crisis is accelerating a global increase in antibiotic resistance that poses a serious threat to human health, experts have said as figures show a rise in salmonella antibiotic resistant genes.</p><p>Antibiotic resistance is one of the fastest-growing threats to global health. It can affect people of any age in any country and already kills more than 1 million people a year, according to estimates.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/26/climate-crisis-accelerating-antibiotic-resistance-across-world-salmonella-study">Continue reading...</a>
An industry report suggests that the net-zero economy is already established and employs more than 105,000 people.
Nasa plans to send hopping drones and roving vehicles to the Moon as part of plans for a permanent Moon base.
<p>Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&utm_campaign=BN22326&utm_content=signup&utm_term=standfirst&utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email</a></p></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/nasa">Nasa</a> announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/24/nasa-moon-base-cancelling-artemis">$20bn moon base</a>, and said it had chosen the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blue-origin">Blue Origin</a>, ahead of Elon Musk’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/spacex">SpaceX</a>, to conduct the first.</p><p>The revelation by Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, at a press conference in Washington DC marked the first detailed public explanation of how and when the moon base will be built.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/26/nasa-jeff-bezos-blue-origin">Continue reading...</a>
The plans include permanent human habitation on the Earth's only natural satellite by 2032.
<p>Anthropic has been consulting theologians and ethicists on Claude’s behavior, raising questions about who gets to shape a chatbot’s values</p>
Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story.
<p>A statement can be true or false. But as Kurt Gödel demonstrated, there will always be mathematical assumptions that can neither be proven nor disproven</p>
The combined effects of a heat dome and climate change have brought extreme warmth to western Europe.
<p>Western Europe is essentially trapped in the weather equivalent of a Dutch oven, a situation that one scientist said has “the fingerprints of climate change all over it”</p>
<p>China’s artificial embryos are part of an experiment to learn more about how human pregnancies could develop under microgravity conditions</p>
Kyle Diamantas doesn't have the typical CV for an FDA commissioner, but he's earning early praise.