NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk perform spacewalk to install and deploy an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA).
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2026/oct/29/astronauts-step-out-of-the-iss-for-spacewalk-watch-live", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:37:14 GMT" } }, { "id": "003d1040269c0536094c7c9309373db7330aa4c3", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "‘It’s a theatre and we’re pawns’: taking the stand as an expert witness – podcast", "summary": "As one of the world’s leading forensic anthropologists, Dame Sue Black has acted as an expert witness in a myriad of high-profile criminal cases. Her work has taken her from the lab to active war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters to identify victims’ bodies. Speaking to Ian Sample, the professor explains why standing up in front of a judge and jury has been one of the more terrifying parts of her career, the reputational risk of presenting evidence in court and what the future of forensic science could look likeOrder An Expert Witness from the Guardian bookshopSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/oct/29/science-weekly-sue-black-taking-stand-expert-witness", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T05:00:26+00:00", "score": 82.9, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "‘It’s a theatre and we’re pawns’: taking the stand as an expert witness – podcast", "summary": "As one of the world’s leading forensic anthropologists, Dame Sue Black has acted as an expert witness in a myriad of high-profile criminal cases. Her work has taken her from the lab to active war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters to identify victims’ bodies. Speaking to Ian Sample, the professor explains why standing up in front of a judge and jury has been one of the more terrifying parts of her career, the reputational risk of presenting evidence in court and what the future of forensic science could look like
Order An Expert Witness from the Guardian bookshop
Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/oct/29/science-weekly-sue-black-taking-stand-expert-witness", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:00:26 GMT" } }, { "id": "d8364495cafcc7e99f9a3d5eaedbbb537b372b83", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Putin hails Elon Musk’s ‘genius’ amid plans for Russian version of Starlink", "summary": "Russia plans to build own version of US billionaire’s satellite communications to help attack UkraineVladimir Putin praised Elon Musk’s genius and said he was in touch with Starlink’s controlling shareholder as Russia develops its own satellite communications for its military to use against Ukraine.The Russian president, speaking at a summit with African leaders in Moscow, was comparing the Earth-orbiting network built by Musk’s SpaceX with Russia’s gradual efforts to build its own Rassvet constellation. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/28/vladimir-putin-elon-musk-genius-russia-starlink", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T18:32:38+00:00", "score": 77.81, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Putin hails Elon Musk’s ‘genius’ amid plans for Russian version of Starlink", "summary": "Russia plans to build own version of US billionaire’s satellite communications to help attack Ukraine
Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk’s genius and said he was in touch with Starlink’s controlling shareholder as Russia develops its own satellite communications for its military to use against Ukraine.
The Russian president, speaking at a summit with African leaders in Moscow, was comparing the Earth-orbiting network built by Musk’s SpaceX with Russia’s gradual efforts to build its own Rassvet constellation.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/28/vladimir-putin-elon-musk-genius-russia-starlink", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:32:38 GMT" } }, { "id": "012051776325d14a49ca30a3c3cb57287ea7a14f", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Africa’s ‘unprecedented’ Ebola outbreak could reach UK, says top health official", "summary": "Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatmentThe “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials.As the current outbreak reached 10,000 cases, with almost 5,000 deaths, Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), compared the outbreak to the Covid pandemic, which first took hold in China before spreading to countries across the world, claiming millions of lives, and ravaging health systems and economies. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/28/africa-ebola-outbreak-could-reach-uk-says-top-health-official", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T09:37:49+00:00", "score": 73.48, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Africa’s ‘unprecedented’ Ebola outbreak could reach UK, says top health official", "summary": "Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatment
The “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials.
As the current outbreak reached 10,000 cases, with almost 5,000 deaths, Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), compared the outbreak to the Covid pandemic, which first took hold in China before spreading to countries across the world, claiming millions of lives, and ravaging health systems and economies.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/28/africa-ebola-outbreak-could-reach-uk-says-top-health-official", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:37:49 GMT" } }, { "id": "2e87d6ae418ee2a311a2cd8ae349280661a0a61a", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "‘Ferritin face’: are social media claims about iron deficiency fact – or fiction?", "summary": "Experts say symptoms such as dark circles under the eyes, grey skin, cracked lips and hair loss can be a warning sign – but there are other factors tooTikTok is rife with influencers warning of “ferritin face”, a term they use to describe the pallor, dark circles, dry skin, and hair loss claimed to indicate low iron stores. But is this based on fact or fiction, and when is it time to head to the GP? Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/28/ferritin-face-social-media-claims-iron-deficiency", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T08:00:01+00:00", "score": 72.69, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "‘Ferritin face’: are social media claims about iron deficiency fact – or fiction?", "summary": "Experts say symptoms such as dark circles under the eyes, grey skin, cracked lips and hair loss can be a warning sign – but there are other factors too
TikTok is rife with influencers warning of “ferritin face”, a term they use to describe the pallor, dark circles, dry skin, and hair loss claimed to indicate low iron stores. But is this based on fact or fiction, and when is it time to head to the GP?
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/28/ferritin-face-social-media-claims-iron-deficiency", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:00:01 GMT" } }, { "id": "a02551de166905a80879c1a5fd66f8d10f562701", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "How rising seas transformed dry land into Venice lagoon", "summary": "Scientists uncover ancient hills and swamps that disappeared as sea levels rose across northern AdriaticVenice is famed for being a floating city, but research shows the land it sits on once lay many miles inland. Dramatic changes in sea level over 10,000 years have reshaped the northern Adriatic coastline, with much of the land that our ancestors roamed now lying beneath the waves.Samuele Ongaro, at the University of Southampton, and colleagues combined seismic data with sedimentary cores from the coastal basins of northern Italy, Slovenia and northern Croatia to model changes in sea level across the region and reconstruct past landscapes over the past 10,000 years. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/28/rising-seas-transformed-dry-land-venice-lagoon", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T06:00:04+00:00", "score": 71.71, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "How rising seas transformed dry land into Venice lagoon", "summary": "Scientists uncover ancient hills and swamps that disappeared as sea levels rose across northern Adriatic
Venice is famed for being a floating city, but research shows the land it sits on once lay many miles inland. Dramatic changes in sea level over 10,000 years have reshaped the northern Adriatic coastline, with much of the land that our ancestors roamed now lying beneath the waves.
Samuele Ongaro, at the University of Southampton, and colleagues combined seismic data with sedimentary cores from the coastal basins of northern Italy, Slovenia and northern Croatia to model changes in sea level across the region and reconstruct past landscapes over the past 10,000 years.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/28/rising-seas-transformed-dry-land-venice-lagoon", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:00:04 GMT" } }, { "id": "eb2f110c8486e9ebe7eef1e47e629e0b99acee26", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Rare Nanotyrannus skeleton sells for $47.3m at New York auction", "summary": "Sale makes ‘Jodi’, a smaller relative of T rex, the ‘second most valuable dinosaur ever sold at auction’, Sotheby’s saysA rare skeleton of a Nanotyrannus, a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, sold at auction in New York this week for $47.3m, making it one of the world’s most expensive fossils.The skeleton, named “Jodi” after the person who found the remains in 2019, sold at Sotheby’s on Tuesday for $47.3m, “after a twelve-minute bidding battle that saw six bidders compete online and over the phones, before ultimately selling on the phone”, Sotheby’s said in a statement. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/nanotyrannus-dinosaur-fossil-sothebys-auction", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-27T21:40:13+00:00", "score": 67.66, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Rare Nanotyrannus skeleton sells for $47.3m at New York auction", "summary": "Sale makes ‘Jodi’, a smaller relative of T rex, the ‘second most valuable dinosaur ever sold at auction’, Sotheby’s says
A rare skeleton of a Nanotyrannus, a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, sold at auction in New York this week for $47.3m, making it one of the world’s most expensive fossils.
The skeleton, named “Jodi” after the person who found the remains in 2019, sold at Sotheby’s on Tuesday for $47.3m, “after a twelve-minute bidding battle that saw six bidders compete online and over the phones, before ultimately selling on the phone”, Sotheby’s said in a statement.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/nanotyrannus-dinosaur-fossil-sothebys-auction", "image": "", "published": "Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:40:13 GMT" } }, { "id": "0d2fafded6a57c1b265f00b7347d1eb2c476a900", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Perimenopause is everywhere. How do you know if you’re in it? - video", "summary": "Perimenopause has become a hot topic, with celebrities sharing their experiences and doctors offering tips and advice online. But despite the benefits of growing awareness, a rising number of women are now encountering misinformation about treatments such as HRT. Madeleine Finlay hears from Dr Paula Briggs, a consultant in sexual and reproductive health, about why experts have raised the alarm. Science correspondent Nicola Davis gives the facts on symptoms, tests and treatments Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2026/oct/27/perimenopause-is-everywhere-how-do-you-know-if-youre-in-it-video", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-27T15:08:29+00:00", "score": 64.49, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Perimenopause is everywhere. How do you know if you’re in it? - video", "summary": "Perimenopause has become a hot topic, with celebrities sharing their experiences and doctors offering tips and advice online. But despite the benefits of growing awareness, a rising number of women are now encountering misinformation about treatments such as HRT. Madeleine Finlay hears from Dr Paula Briggs, a consultant in sexual and reproductive health, about why experts have raised the alarm. Science correspondent Nicola Davis gives the facts on symptoms, tests and treatments
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2026/oct/27/perimenopause-is-everywhere-how-do-you-know-if-youre-in-it-video", "image": "", "published": "Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:08:29 GMT" } }, { "id": "5617d40333c01a3a01aaf5866b008ad514c7ecf4", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Are seed oils unhealthy? Why are so many influencers speaking out against them? | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz", "summary": "Randomised trials of omega-6s do not show an increase in inflammation caused by the fatty acidRead more in the Antiviral seriesIf you’ve been online lately, you’ve probably been bombarded with the discourse about seed oils. Once a completely innocuous food that no one really talked about, they have become the enemy of the moment. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of health and human services in the US, has called them “toxic” and vowed to act against them. There are countless activewear-clad influencers online saying that nothing harms your health more than these products.Which is odd, because the Australian dietary guidelines say seed oils are basically fine. You should limit them because they’re high in calories but otherwise there’s no major reason – according to the guidelines and most experts – why you should avoid them. As Prof Lauren Ball, director of the University of Queenslan…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/are-seed-oils-unhealthy-scientific-evidence", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-27T14:00:37+00:00", "score": 63.94, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Are seed oils unhealthy? Why are so many influencers speaking out against them? | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz", "summary": "Randomised trials of omega-6s do not show an increase in inflammation caused by the fatty acid
Read more in the Antiviral series
If you’ve been online lately, you’ve probably been bombarded with the discourse about seed oils. Once a completely innocuous food that no one really talked about, they have become the enemy of the moment. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of health and human services in the US, has called them “toxic” and vowed to act against them. There are countless activewear-clad influencers online saying that nothing harms your health more than these products.
Which is odd, because the Australian dietary guidelines say seed oils are basically fine. You should limit them because they’re high in calories but otherwise there’s no major reason – according to the guidelines and most experts – why you should avoid them. As Prof Lauren Ball, director of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing, says: “There’s no convincing evidence that eating seed oils like canola or sunflower oil in normal dietary amounts harms our health. In fact, these oils contain unsaturated fats, which are generally beneficial for cardiovascular health.” Dr Jason Wu, a professor at the University of New South Wales, agrees: “The evidence base consistently points to health benefits of eating seed oils.”
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/are-seed-oils-unhealthy-scientific-evidence", "image": "", "published": "Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:00:37 GMT" } }, { "id": "3579eaca64c287f43fa83c69e1757d8dff14266c", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Country diary: Our tiny island is awash with waxcaps | Tim Earl", "summary": "Calf of Man, Isle of Man: Such is the wealth of Manx fungi, a map is being built to plot it all. We took a special trip as part of that projectThe bird observatory on the Calf of Man was sulking under a low cloud base as we stepped ashore at South Harbour. The dank mist was perfect for our surprise visit to the island, as it was not for the birds we had come across, but fungi – in particular, waxcaps.My wife, Liz, and I had taken the chance to accompany Nev Kilkenny, a visiting mycologist, who would help identify and study some autumn mushrooms and toadstools – and contribute to a map that is being assembled of Manx fungi. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/27/country-diary-our-tiny-island-is-awash-with-waxcaps", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-27T05:30:02+00:00", "score": 59.8, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Country diary: Our tiny island is awash with waxcaps | Tim Earl", "summary": "Calf of Man, Isle of Man: Such is the wealth of Manx fungi, a map is being built to plot it all. We took a special trip as part of that project
The bird observatory on the Calf of Man was sulking under a low cloud base as we stepped ashore at South Harbour. The dank mist was perfect for our surprise visit to the island, as it was not for the birds we had come across, but fungi – in particular, waxcaps.
My wife, Liz, and I had taken the chance to accompany Nev Kilkenny, a visiting mycologist, who would help identify and study some autumn mushrooms and toadstools – and contribute to a map that is being assembled of Manx fungi.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/27/country-diary-our-tiny-island-is-awash-with-waxcaps", "image": "", "published": "Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:30:02 GMT" } }, { "id": "4b49b676b3d717fd559c2fb852003be89a175dce", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Would you pay to have the ‘best baby’? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection", "summary": "For decades the idea of eugenics has been taboo. Now it is returning in a new commercial guiseFor a very long time, I dreamed of being cured. I was born in 1981. I learned to walk early enough, but I stumbled and fell more easily than other children. My parents began to worry that something was wrong, that my muscles were weaker than they should be. Eventually, at the age of three, I was diagnosed with a form of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In the 1980s, the precise mechanics were not yet understood, but the condition was known to be hereditary, probably linked to a recessive gene. It was also known to be progressive. As I aged, my muscles would not keep pace. At eight, I began to use a wheelchair for longer distances. By the time I was 18, I rarely walked outdoors any more.It is hard to be young and to know that you are growing weaker rather than stronger. I had all the same aspirati…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/27/would-you-pay-to-have-the-best-baby-liberal-eugenics-and-the-troubling-quest-for-human-perfection", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-27T05:00:04+00:00", "score": 59.56, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Would you pay to have the ‘best baby’? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection", "summary": "For decades the idea of eugenics has been taboo. Now it is returning in a new commercial guise
For a very long time, I dreamed of being cured. I was born in 1981. I learned to walk early enough, but I stumbled and fell more easily than other children. My parents began to worry that something was wrong, that my muscles were weaker than they should be. Eventually, at the age of three, I was diagnosed with a form of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In the 1980s, the precise mechanics were not yet understood, but the condition was known to be hereditary, probably linked to a recessive gene. It was also known to be progressive. As I aged, my muscles would not keep pace. At eight, I began to use a wheelchair for longer distances. By the time I was 18, I rarely walked outdoors any more.
It is hard to be young and to know that you are growing weaker rather than stronger. I had all the same aspirations that my nondisabled friends did, but I lived in fear of the future in a way they did not. I spent a lot of time thinking about what my life would have been like if I didn’t have SMA. The images in my head were of something like a double: myself, only rid of this one deficit, imprecisely defined, but encoded somewhere in my body.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/27/would-you-pay-to-have-the-best-baby-liberal-eugenics-and-the-troubling-quest-for-human-perfection", "image": "", "published": "Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:00:04 GMT" } }, { "id": "f881e8f998ec2cd1b5ca32aadce79996dd43c3d7", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Peta releases video showing experiments on infant monkeys at University of Washington", "summary": "Animal-rights group released video footage that shows distressed baby macaques undergoing lab experimentsFootage released by the animal-rights group Peta reveals, for the first time, filmed experiments at the University of Washington’s National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC), in which newborn monkeys were separated from their mothers and subjected to neurological tests after prenatal exposure to a neurotoxin.Records show that the infant monkeys, some just two days old, were used in research on domoic acid, a toxin produced by marine algae that accumulates in shellfish and can cause illness in humans. The experiments were part of a project that ran for six years until 2020. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/peta-monkey-experiment-video", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-26T12:00:41+00:00", "score": 58.55, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Peta releases video showing experiments on infant monkeys at University of Washington", "summary": "Animal-rights group released video footage that shows distressed baby macaques undergoing lab experiments
Footage released by the animal-rights group Peta reveals, for the first time, filmed experiments at the University of Washington’s National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC), in which newborn monkeys were separated from their mothers and subjected to neurological tests after prenatal exposure to a neurotoxin.
Records show that the infant monkeys, some just two days old, were used in research on domoic acid, a toxin produced by marine algae that accumulates in shellfish and can cause illness in humans. The experiments were part of a project that ran for six years until 2020.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/peta-monkey-experiment-video", "image": "", "published": "Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:41 GMT" } }, { "id": "4967aa5320c2e496780b82cbc96b589c25ca9e48", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "‘It’s magic’: scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass", "summary": "Exclusive: Optical engineering that went into 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup has baffled experts for centuriesThe Romans’ proficiency in the art of glass-making has produced some of the wonders of antiquity, but few of their creations better a 1,600-year-old masterpiece which sits in the British Museum.Depending on where a light source is positioned, the Lycurgus Cup changes colour, from jade green under normal lighting to ruby red when lit from behind – an astonishing feat of optical engineering that has confounded historians and glass-makers for centuries. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/25/scientists-rediscover-ancient-roman-colour-changing-glass", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-25T06:00:55+00:00", "score": 58.55, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "‘It’s magic’: scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass", "summary": "Exclusive: Optical engineering that went into 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup has baffled experts for centuries
The Romans’ proficiency in the art of glass-making has produced some of the wonders of antiquity, but few of their creations better a 1,600-year-old masterpiece which sits in the British Museum.
Depending on where a light source is positioned, the Lycurgus Cup changes colour, from jade green under normal lighting to ruby red when lit from behind – an astonishing feat of optical engineering that has confounded historians and glass-makers for centuries.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/25/scientists-rediscover-ancient-roman-colour-changing-glass", "image": "", "published": "Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:00:55 GMT" } }, { "id": "d5a83f2a22c1855d208fadc0cea32e714260eaf9", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "The BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature Check", "summary": "An ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’. It doesn’t stack upWant to get this in your inbox when it publishes? Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter hereAustralia’s climate has warmed by more than 1.5C since 1910, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s main long-term temperature data.If you were so motivated, you might think if you could discredit this data, then you would undermine the whole climate change story and even – perhaps – the rationale for cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/25/bom-temperature-record-keeping-under-attack-again", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-24T19:00:41+00:00", "score": 58.55, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "The BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature Check", "summary": "An ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’. It doesn’t stack up
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Australia’s climate has warmed by more than 1.5C since 1910, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s main long-term temperature data.
If you were so motivated, you might think if you could discredit this data, then you would undermine the whole climate change story and even – perhaps – the rationale for cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/25/bom-temperature-record-keeping-under-attack-again", "image": "", "published": "Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:00:41 GMT" } }, { "id": "64c285317c60c734ed048a8a311b2106578a4c67", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Can AI really predict cancer survival better than a doctor? I have my doubts | Devi Sridhar", "summary": "Take a selfie to see how healthy you are: the idea is enticing and this new research is promising. But so many factors have been ignoredThe idea that a single selfie could predict how long someone with cancer may live sounds like an incredible breakthrough. AI is getting better at spotting patterns in medical data, but can it be used to reliably predict what will happen to an individual patient? I asked a clinical colleague what she thought about the recent headlines. She found it an interesting development given that doctors have long used facial appearance to assess patient health. For example, she noted that they may write “appears stated age” or “appears older than stated age” as a proxy for general health.Now, researchers from Mass General Brigham, a healthcare institution in Massachusetts, have taken this idea a step further. They have developed an AI model trained on more than 40…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/23/ai-cancer-survival-doctor-selfie-health-research", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-23T07:00:03+00:00", "score": 58.55, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Can AI really predict cancer survival better than a doctor? I have my doubts | Devi Sridhar", "summary": "Take a selfie to see how healthy you are: the idea is enticing and this new research is promising. But so many factors have been ignored
The idea that a single selfie could predict how long someone with cancer may live sounds like an incredible breakthrough. AI is getting better at spotting patterns in medical data, but can it be used to reliably predict what will happen to an individual patient? I asked a clinical colleague what she thought about the recent headlines. She found it an interesting development given that doctors have long used facial appearance to assess patient health. For example, she noted that they may write “appears stated age” or “appears older than stated age” as a proxy for general health.
Now, researchers from Mass General Brigham, a healthcare institution in Massachusetts, have taken this idea a step further. They have developed an AI model trained on more than 40 million facial images – called FAHR-Face – to assess biological age and predict survival in cancer patients. For biological age, they developed FAHR-FaceAge, which estimates age from certain facial features such as the forehead, the wrinkles between the nose and mouth and the temples. For cancer survival, they developed FAHR-FaceSurvival, trained using almost 35,000 photos of cancer patients. This model focused more closely on the area below the eyes and the bridge of the nose – regions of the face “linked with dying”. Dr Raymond Mak, one of the study’s authors, noted that these parts of the face are the same as those referenced by Hippocrates in 400BC as signs of muscle wasting and mortality risk: “the nose sharp, the eyes sunken, the temples fallen in”.
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
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Clip: You Can See Everything, A24
‘You can’t make this stuff up’: why we remain fascinated by Elizabeth Holmes
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Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?
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Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/oct/20/these-risks-are-real-the-threat-of-ai-bioweapons-podcast", "image": "", "published": "Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:00:15 GMT" } }, { "id": "20b6bcd7e8b8c2ddfc9a6170efaf16d169d03194", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "The Guardian view on plague in Russia: what is most worrying is the lack of information | Editorial", "summary": "In the three weeks since a health worker’s death in Siberia, officials have stonewalled the WHO – setting a worrying precedent for future pandemicsIs there a plague outbreak in Russia? If the answer were a clear yes, there shouldn’t be much reason to worry. With swift medical intervention, plague is treatable. But in the nearly three weeks since a worker at a Siberian plague research unit died of a mysterious respiratory illness, state officials have been consistently tight-lipped about what happened and whether there were any further cases.It is this uncertainty that has the World Health Organization (WHO) and international community worried: partly because there is a – very small – risk of an outbreak, and partly because it is yet another warning that the international coordination we rely on to prevent pandemics is fraying along with the rest of international politics, and could easi…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/18/the-guardian-view-on-plague-in-russia-what-is-most-worrying-is-the-lack-of-information", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-18T16:30:04+00:00", "score": 58.55, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "The Guardian view on plague in Russia: what is most worrying is the lack of information | Editorial", "summary": "In the three weeks since a health worker’s death in Siberia, officials have stonewalled the WHO – setting a worrying precedent for future pandemics
Is there a plague outbreak in Russia? If the answer were a clear yes, there shouldn’t be much reason to worry. With swift medical intervention, plague is treatable. But in the nearly three weeks since a worker at a Siberian plague research unit died of a mysterious respiratory illness, state officials have been consistently tight-lipped about what happened and whether there were any further cases.
It is this uncertainty that has the World Health Organization (WHO) and international community worried: partly because there is a – very small – risk of an outbreak, and partly because it is yet another warning that the international coordination we rely on to prevent pandemics is fraying along with the rest of international politics, and could easily fail to protect us in the future.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/18/the-guardian-view-on-plague-in-russia-what-is-most-worrying-is-the-lack-of-information", "image": "", "published": "Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:30:04 GMT" } }, { "id": "bfac15eb9b878f1a56979f7d5650e7991ae19c48", "source_id": "guardian_science", "source": "The Guardian — Science", "category": "science", "engine": "rss", "title": "Norman McCubbin obituary", "summary": "My brother Norman McCubbin, who has died aged 77, was a scientist who worked at the forefront of experimental particle physics.A leading light in experiments that took place on the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Switzerland, he spent the last five years of his working life as director of the particle physics department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, until his retirement in 2012. Afterwards he became a tutor to undergraduates at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and was still in that role at his death. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/15/norman-mccubbin-obituary", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-15T18:49:45+00:00", "score": 58.55, "color": "#7cff9e", "raw": { "title": "Norman McCubbin obituary", "summary": "My brother Norman McCubbin, who has died aged 77, was a scientist who worked at the forefront of experimental particle physics.
A leading light in experiments that took place on the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Switzerland, he spent the last five years of his working life as director of the particle physics department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, until his retirement in 2012. Afterwards he became a tutor to undergraduates at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and was still in that role at his death.
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
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