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‘Lots of people don’t want to do it’: Paul Nurse on his controversial second term as Royal Society president | Royal Society

Paul Nurse is a turn up for the books. A Nobel prize-winning geneticist, former director of the Francis Crick Institute and erstwhile head of...

Nasa announces timeline of astronauts’ early departure from ISS due to ‘serious’ medical issue | International Space Station

Nasa has announced when it will commence its first medical evacuation from the International Space Station after an astronaut fell ill with a “serious”...

Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions? | Canada

Manoel Dixon had just finished dinner one night last May when a phone dinged nearby with a Facebook message.Dixon, 26, was at his family’s...

London’s Christmas trees get new lease of life

Gem O'Reilly,reporting from Peckham,Leyla Hayes,reporting from DulwichandJames W Kelly,LondonBBCCaelo Dineen Vanstone and Hugo Knox co-founded a firm turning Christmas trees into building materialAs Christmas...

Nine scientific breakthroughs I’d like to see in 2026 – from earworms to procrastination | Emma Beddington

People who greet the new year with hope, ambitious plans and optimised gut microbiomes might be obnoxiously apparent at the moment, but we all...

Trump wants Venezuela’s oil. Will his plan work?

Archie Mitchell,Business reporterandNatalie Sherman,Business reporterBloomberg via Getty ImagesVenezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, though the country's production is limited due to...

Wolf supermoon across the world – in pictures

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Fresh bone analysis makes case for earliest ‘ancestor of humankind’, but doubts remain | Palaeontology

In the murky first chapters of the human story is an unknown ancestor that made the profound transition from walking on all fours to...

‘I need to help’: Barnsley woman’s rabies death inspires dog-vaccinating mission | Infectious diseases

It was just a scratch. Among all the feelings and thoughts that she has had to wrestle with since the summer, disbelief is the...

Should the NHS really use magic mushrooms to treat mental health?

Pallab GhoshScience CorrespondentBBCListen to Pallab Ghosh read this articleLarissa Hope truly believes that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, saved her life.Back when...

Intriguing finds could solve mystery of women in medieval cemetery

Rebecca Morelle,Science EditorandAlison Francis,Senior Science JournalistKevin Church/BBC NewsThese tiny beads could have been stitched onto clothing or attached to jewellery Intriguing new discoveries in...

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