Science
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Chinese geneticist He Jiankui’s claim to have altered embryos prompts outcry from scientists
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Lander is on a mission to map the planet’s interior, but first it has to get there intact -
Jewellery and grooming items found during summer excavation in Lincolnshire -
Digging alongside the bulldozers of the £1.5bn road diversion, archaeologists have discovered tonnes of ancient bones. Is there a find so important that it could stop the whole project? -
Unconfirmed scientific breakthrough sparks ethical and moral concerns
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New method of freeze-drying IPV maintains its potency in hot conditions -
InSight probe reveals desolate landscape as dust settles after its arrival on Martian surface -
Key issues
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Chemist and biophysicist who won the Nobel prize for developing crystallographic electron microscopy
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Activists targeting motorists need to think bigger – they should be working with the Labour party, says Novara Media co-founder James Butler -
The ruthless behaviour of corporations gives us some idea of what we need to avoid in a future run by machines -
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The solutions to today’s puzzles -
Shine your inner light bulb on these geometrical gems -
The solution to today’s puzzle -
A little known episode from the early seventeenth century
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Liar liar, pants on fire? In this collaboration between the Guardian’s Science Weekly and Chips with Everything podcasts, we explore whether it will ever be possible to build intelligent machines to detect porky pies -
Flight controllers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California react to the successful landing of InSight, a spacecraft designed to explore Mars's interior
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A plane with no moving parts in its propulsion system has successfully flown for a distance of 60 metres, proving that heavier-than-air flight is possible without jets or propellers
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Two decades ago, the Zarya module lifted off from Kazakhstan, ushering in a new era of high-tech cooperation in space -
Using high-resolution aerial photography from satellites and planes to mirror the phenomenon from which the project derives its name – the overview effect: the sensation experienced by astronauts when viewing Earth from space -
The Guardian has obtained an audio recording of a presentation by Craig Kelly at the right-aligned Mosman branch of the Liberal party in September that outlines in detail his climate scepticism
Gene-edited babies: no one has the moral warrant to go it alone