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what it will take to rival the US and China

“Europe will always choose science,” Ursula von der Leyen announced in May 2025 in a landmark speech that kicked off…

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Stem cells banish severe autoimmune disease for 15 years

Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library A man and a woman with a rare and devastating autoimmune disease have been in…

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Oceans in Asia smash heat records — what it means for extreme weather

During cyclone Ditwah Sri Lanka received 10% of its yearly rainfall in a single day.Credit: © Cyrielle Beaubois/Getty The amount…

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Bones of Iron Age skeleton were whittled into tools

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 15 June 2026 The female individual’s brain was removed after her death, but her remains were carefully reassembled…

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This World Cup could be the most high-tech yet — the innovations to watch for

Lamine Yamal, who plays for Spain, is one of the elite footballers whose movements will be tracked by AI tools…

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Sustainability or dystopia? What past patterns tell us about where society is heading

Tipping Out of Trouble: How Societies Transformed and How We Can Do So Again Marten Scheffer Cambridge Univ. Press (2026)…

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See a helicopter destined for Mars and a spectacular flowery frame for the Milky Way — May’s best science images

Spot the differences. To celebrate its 36th birthday, the Hubble Space Telescope revisited a region of the Trifid Nebula, a ‘stellar…

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First and last authors more likely to be men in leading science journals

Women’s growing participation in research is not always matched by high-profile authorship positions.Credit: Pierre Trihan/AFP via Getty In some ways,…

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Science sleuths uncover more than 100 suspicious images in Thermo Fisher antibody catalogue

Y-shaped biomolecules called antibodies are scientific workhorse tools that researchers use to bind to and track specific proteins.Credit: Nemes Laszlo/Science…

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Supply Drop #42 Status: Received Message: Can you hear me, Fleur? Can anyone hear me? These supply deliveries arrive at…

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