CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level dataSeveral Florida counties recently declared a state of local emergency in response to...
SpaceX's spaceship blasted off from its Starbase launch facility in Texas on 28 September morning, marking its 14th test flight and first attempt to circle the planet before falling back to Earth, des...
Mission goes ahead despite some fears an initial engine failure after the Texas launch would scupper the attemptSpaceX has sent its enormous Starship rocket into Earth’s orbit for the first time on a...
Scientific breakthrough could reduce food waste and make it easier to add the fruit to prepackaged foodIt is the bane of every fruit bowl: sliced banana that turns brown before it has reached the tabl...
The solution to the seventeenth century stumperEarlier today I set you a puzzle that Isaac Newton posed in 1679 in a latter to Robert Hooke. I mentioned that the answer is counter-intuitive, and also...
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Ant...
The US says it is unable to support a major global text on pandemic prevention and preparedness put forward at UN general assemblyThe United States government’s decision to block a major global declar...
The problem that changed the worldUPDATE: Solution is now upToday’s puzzle played a pivotal role in the birth of classical physics.The tower dropslightly to the westslightly to the eastexactly at the...
Below the southern edge of the Great Square of Pegasus lie the fishes, linked by two stringsThis week we will track down Pisces, the fishes. Despite being one of the largest zodiacal constellations, i...
Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support lifeFrom the moment scientists spotted plumes of water erupting...
Series of in-flight problems meant Link, a ‘commercial space robot’, could not salvage the Nasa observatoryA spacecraft that was launched in July on a mission to rescue a decaying Nasa space observato...
Experts working on database that could identify particular breeds involved in crimes, or rule out canine suspectsFrom tracking criminals to sniffing out drugs, dogs have long helped police crack cases...
NHS England says test can be done while patient is on operating table and is being piloted in five centres around the countryA rapid new test for brain tumours can diagnose patients while they are sti...
Madeleine Finlay sits down with her co-host and Guardian science editor, Ian Sample, to discuss three science stories from the week, including a study that offers a clue in the age-old debate about wh...
Madeleine Finlay sits down with her co-host and Guardian science editor, Ian Sample, to discuss three science stories from the week, including a study that offers a clue in the age-old debate about wh...
As diet trends proliferate on social media, it can be hard to work out which are backed by science and which should be ignored. From paleo to keto, raw food to intermittent fasting, each attracts a tr...
As diet trends proliferate on social media, it can be hard to work out which are backed by science and which should be ignored. From paleo to keto, raw food to intermittent fasting, each attracts a tr...
Exclusive: The tax-funded brainchild of Dominic Cummings hopes to find ways to speed up wild species’ evolutionVaccines for ash trees, skin treatments for newts and gene-edited swallowtail butterflies...
OpenAI claims its agents have solved the Navier-Stokes problem. But questions remain about how useful and independent its work really isOn 8 September, OpenAI claimed that its AI agents had solved the...
In early September, OpenAI announced it had solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century. The news left mathematicians reeling, and many expressed concern over what...
My coccyx still hurts from an extreme cycling challenge almost two decades ago. Is there anything it’s good for?‘Welcome to middle age.” This is what my GP said to me 10 years ago when I asked her why...
In early September, OpenAI announced it had solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century. The news left mathematicians reeling, and many expressed concern over what...
The answers to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set four engineering puzzles. Here they are again with solutions. (Do check out the hundreds of great comments posted below the line in the original story...
Hacks from the hidden world of test engineeringUPDATE: Read the answers hereToday’s puzzles test your engineering smarts.The cranberries Continue reading...
CEOs may like to get up at the crack of dawn and go for a run, but I prefer optimising my life with lie-ins, trashy films, swearing and coffeeThis evening I’m going to tuck my five-year-old into bed a...
The solution to today’s underwater conundrumsEarlier today I set you the following puzzles. Here they are again with the solutions.A fish is swimming in a tank that is two metres high, one metre acros...
The space industry treats the sky as a place to dump what it no longer wants. We must develop a new model of accountabilityOn 5 August, a piece of a derelict SpaceX rocket traveling at 5,400 miles an...