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Analysis: as Covid cases reach 40,000 a day, scientists think normalisation is partly to blame for the lack of public reaction

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Company says it will know in two weeks whether current Pfizer jab is effective against Omicron variant

Female physicists question ‘terrifying’ claims made by government commissioner Katharine Birbalsingh to MPs

Being proved wrong lies at the heart of scientific progress. Here, experts reveal what they got wrong during the pandemic

Proposed 100km circular tunnel would be four times as big and six times as powerful as LHC

Science now has a cabinet seat, but Britain’s world-leading reputation is fading fast, says public health professor Devi Sridhar

Researcher Jess Wade says efforts to attract girls into science are not evidence-based – and are not working

‘Revolutionary’ observations suggest the first stars appeared 180m years after the big bang – and may hold information on dark matter

Coronavirus pandemic’s finishing line has not yet come clearly into focus for millions of people

Concern has been growing about bullying in the world of academia. We want to hear from academic staff about their experiences

Suspension ordered in England to avoid further risk of ‘life-changing injuries’ to women

First observations from Inouye telescope bring previously hazy star into sharp focus

Prof Claudia de Rham’s ‘massive gravity’ theory could explain why universe expansion is accelerating

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Models analysing a player’s broader contribution to team success show the clear winner, says Ian Graham

Senior professors among 300 people alleged to have bullied students and colleagues

The science is shaky on lie detecting but there is evidence polygraphs have another use

Oxford team to recruit up to 510 healthy adults without Covid-19 in race to stop further spread

The good news is you can save on school fees. A new study finds that selective schools add almost nothing to the exam results of students, because the advantages teenagers come out with are mainly...

London has seen steeper decline in R rate but north has slower fall in infections, and estimates vary

Duncan Haldane and Sir Fraser Stoddart call for scientists to be given protected status for visas, and highlight the role of EU funding in attracting elite scientists

Trial seeks further proof that tuning into our internal organs’ activity can reduce anxiety

Bacteria-killing viruses known as phages offer hope of solution to antibiotic resistance

Recognition that commercial interests had trumped patient safety follows Guardian exposé

Wrought iron process that drove UK success was appropriated from black metallurgists, records suggest

Japanese team spent 12 years on the project after digging up deep-sea mud

Report singles out Britain for ‘unprecedented levels of collaboration’ with China’s military

Human trial of vaccine created by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health to begin in Seattle

Woman awarded record $57m damages over implant launched with no clinical trial and marketed despite higher failure rate

Thousands could be hospitalised and dozens die if MMR vaccine take-up doesn’t rise, say immunologists

Flying closer than any other mission, spacecraft set to unravel the sun’s mysteries

Authors of the study said the observed death rates put the illness on a par with Ebola

Scientists allege Wellcome Sanger Institute management pressured workers to quit

The recent Nobel winners deserve their prize. But you have to go back half a century to find a female physics laureate, writes Guardian science correspondent Hannah Devlin

Cut-throat atmosphere in world-class labs and conferences closer to House of Cards than Big Bang Theory, says Swiss academic

Exclusive: Gamma-ray burst from colliding stars unexpectedly gave way to day-long sight of hypermassive body

Huge systems appear to be far larger than was presumed possible so early after big bang, say scientists

Social changes unleashed by new technologies could undermine core human values unless we engage with science, warns author

Jo Dunkley is Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. Hannah Devlin talks to her about what it’s like to work on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile, where they...

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Ethnic minorities set to miss out on medical benefits of research, scientist warns

Bristol trust offers 198 patients clinical review after concerns about complications

Creation of mammal with two biological fathers could pave way for new fertility treatments in humans

First optical observation made of phenomenon previously thought to occur in darkness

I grew up being told that a prerequisite for our national identity was white skin, says the biologist and author Aarathi Prasad

Huntington’s patient Peter Allen and his siblings – who also carry the gene – watched their mother and grandmother slowly die from the disease. But a new trial has given the family a glimmer of hope