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Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your biological age

Kamchatka earthquake response shows tsunami warnings are improving

Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to treat arthritis

Ageing in the brain may be caused by a breakdown in protein production

E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 changes to its DNA

US says CO2 emissions aren’t harmful – climate science shows otherwise

Mystery of the potato's origins solved by genetics

Common artificial sweetener may interfere with cancer treatments

Longest lightning ‘mega-flash’ sets a shocking new record

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign

The best new science fiction books of August 2025

Ancient Siberian ice mummy is covered in 'really special' tattoos

Human milk could help fight infections that endanger pregnancies

Human trials point the way towards an mRNA vaccine against HIV

Why living in a volatile age may make our brains truly innovative

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

This string art game will boost your mathematical imagination

Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork

Jewellery that monitors movement? No, we can't anticipate any problems

How invisibility cloaks could make us disappear – at least from AI

Five years later, has sci-fi cult hit Devs aged well?

Fascinating artistic depictions of sea life over millennia

Earth's extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived

How life thrives in one of the most hostile environments on Earth

Extra-hard hexagonal diamonds can now be grown in a lab

Covid-19 and flu may reawaken dormant cancer cells in the lungs

New-to-science stick insect is the heaviest ever found in Australia

Ancient pots found near Pompeii contain 2500-year-old honey

Meltwater bursts through Greenland ice in first-of-a-kind eruption

Rust-based battery connects to an electricity grid for the first time

California bets on iron-salt battery power to protect against wildfire

Forests with robust animal populations store four times as much carbon

Is gravity a new type of force that arises from cosmic entropy?

Solar-powered ambush drones can wait for targets like land mines