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River Action says water quality depends on discharges upstream and says check before swimming.
I en studie vid Lunds universitet har forskare identifiera åtta olika så kallade turbulensfaktorer, som påverkar sjuksköterskors arbetsmiljö.
<p>After more than a decade of global consultation, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/12/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos-pmos-symptoms-meaning-treatment-causes-risk-factors-new-name-explained">polycystic ovary syndrome</a> – which affects as many as one in eight women – has been renamed. The condition is caused by high levels of androgens, which can lead to symptoms such as excess hair, weight gain and irregular periods. To understand why campaigners wanted it renamed, and what its new name – polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) – could mean for patients, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s science correspondent, Nicola Davis, and Rachel, a campaigner from the charity Verity</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos-new-name-polyendocrine-metabolic-ovarian-syndrome-pmos">‘Unprecedented’ global effort leads to renaming of polycystic ovary syndrome – and fresh hope for millions of women</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/may/21/can-a-name-change-transform-pcos-outcomes-for-women-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
<p>The science of de-extinction does not exist, but Colossal Bioscience’s “artificial egg” is an interesting technical feat</p>
<p>The Trump administration warned that too much screen time for children is linked to poor sleep, bad behavior and less physical and social activity</p>
"As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."
<p>Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite operations company, with extensive contracts with US, to go public next month</p><p>SpaceX unveiled its plans to list publicly on the US stock market Wednesday, disclosing its investor prospectus and revealing details about its financials for the first time. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>’s rocket and satellite operations company will go public next month at a valuation of around $1.75tn.</p><p>The company, which is the world’s most prominent rocket maker and which has extensive contracts with the US government, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/spacex-public-offering-stock-market">confidentially filed</a> for an IPO last month. The filing allowed for a period of regulatory review before the details became public.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/20/spacex-finances-stock-market-debut">Continue reading...</a>
<p>A deadly Ebola outbreak in parts of Africa is raising international alarm. Still, experts stress that the chance of a pandemic is low</p>
Congressional Democrats are mounting a fresh effort to end a Medicare experiment to use AI to approve or deny care.
Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health
Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health
Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health
A UCSF team has submitted an application to the FDA seeking approval for a small trial of in utero gene therapy for a rare lysosomal storage disorder.
In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology.
A public health advisory calls on parents, schools, and government to limit children's use of screens, saying some patterns of use “can pose real harm to children.”
Stricter limits on extra Medicaid funds are coming, stemming from President Trump's tax cut bill.
Previously classified photos and documents show the scientific work that went into the world's first atomic test in 1945 – a test that, just weeks later, would see nuclear bombs dropped in Japan
On a visit to the UK, Sydney-based reporter James Woodford visited an archaeological site that was on his bucket list – and experienced a very special moment as the sun set
Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments
There’s unexpected news of a fifth movie for one of the most underrated sci-fi reboots. Hurray, says New Scientist film columnist Bethan Ackerley
Jennie Durant's Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas Lewton. But the book's grim figures of bee death alone may not prompt deep change – how about seeing them as fellow creatures?
Growing evidence suggests it takes a sustained viral infection in the right genetic environment to lead to type 1 diabetes.
<p>New trove of fossils reveals that ancestral animals likely emerged in the deep sea</p>
Feedback goes down a "moon warfare" rabbit hole and discovers that some forward-thinkers are making plans to counteract as-yet-hypothetical pirates in space