Associated Press    Suni Williams got a change of scenery after a one week mission stretched to months following capsule problemsOne of Nasa’s two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery on Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven...

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent    Potential looting and commercial trips pose risk to artefacts left by lunar landings, says World Monuments FundThe moon has been placed on a list of threatened heritage sites, owing to fears of potential looting and destruction caused by planned commercial trips.The watchlist of the World Monuments...

Steven Morris    The mutatio, on Ermin Street linking Silchester and Gloucester, would have provided a place for travellers to rest or change horsesAt Gloucester services on the M , travellers are resting and refuelling, taking a break from the demands of the road.Just a few miles east, scores of archaeologists are...

Richard Luscombe    Launch of Amazon founder’s New Glenn craft on second attempt ramps up rivalry between tech billionairesJeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company hailed a new era in commercial spaceflight on Thursday after its giant New Glenn rocket made a long awaited successful maiden launch from Florida.The...

Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent    Ed Miliband says funding pledge means Britain within grasping distance’ of secure, clean, unlimited energy’The UK government has promised a record m investment in nuclear fusion which could help construct a world leading fusion power project on the site of an old coal plant in...

Nicola Davis Science correspondent    Study highlights role of women in Celtic Britain and challenges assumptions most societies were patrilocalFrom Neanderthals to royal courts, history seems awash with women upping sticks to join men’s families, but researchers have found that the tables were turned in Britain’s Celtic communities...

Nicola Davis Science correspondent    International research also reveals conscientious or agreeable children are likely to receive preferential treatmentAs Philip Larkin once noted, your mum and dad have a lasting effect on you. Now, researchers have revealed which siblings in a family are more likely to be favoured: it is bad news...

Jasper Jolly    If successful, Rocket Factory Augsburg will become first company in Europe to carry out vertical launch into orbitThe UK has granted permission to send the first rocket into space from the Shetland Islands to a German startup that plans to launch a craft as early as this year.Britain’s Civil...

Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent    Luke Evans, whose work has been called breathtakingly new’, says he has lost experimental data and all equipmentA scientist in Liverpool has lost more than a decade of work after the prefabricated building that served as his research lab was destroyed in a suspected arson attack.Luke Evans, the...

Petra Stock    Expert says the planet parade will be best viewed around January and recommends downloading a sky map app to help spot themGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastStargazers are being treated to a rare planet parade this month, with most of the planets visible in the night...

Amanda Geduld    With vaccine sceptic as Trump pick to lead US health policy, parents and advocates anticipate devastating changesA political battle over school based Covid protocols in early quickly turned personal for one Colorado family, whose son’s cystic fibrosis a life threatening genetic disease...

Julia Kollewe    The city has a long history with tropical medicine and is now home to one of the largest biotech clusters in EuropeTucked away in the village of Leasowe, near Moreton on the Wirral peninsula west of Liverpool, the US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb BMS is building a new m glass...

Kat Lay Global health correspondent    After Covid , world leaders agreed to work together to strengthen global health systems, but negotiations on a new agreement have stalledFive years ago, the world was hearing the first reports of a mysterious flu like illness emerging from Wuhan, China, now known as Covid .The pandemic that...

Maya Yang    Paper published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents in withdrawn by Dutch publisher ElsevierA controversial study that promoted hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a treatment for Covid has officially been withdrawn.On Tuesday, Elsevier, a Dutch academic publishing...

Patrick Schröder    As commercial space activity ramps up, detritus from launches poses a risk to active satellites and those of us down on EarthLast month, people in a small village in Kenya looked to the sky and saw a red glowing ring slowly descending. The half tonne piece of metal crashed into a nearby thicket...

Arwa Mahdawi    Low quality slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end How do you do, fellow humans My name is Arwa and I am a genuine member of the species homo sapiens. We...

Lucy Jones    These tiny organisms matter. They have been used to map dark matter and improve transport networks, and they’re living all around usA few years ago, I started looking at the underside of logs and it changed my life. I found a secret carnival of the most bodacious and interesting organisms I had...

Mike Pitts    A dig near Bicester has uncovered spectacular tracks in what was once a Jurassic lagoonThere are many reasons to be excited about the dinosaur footprints whose discovery was announced last week. They will bring new understandings to the Jurassic world of more than m years ago. Their recording...

Presented by Ian Sample with Hannah Devlin, produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, executive produced by Ellie Bury    Last year was full of unexpected science news, from a new strain of Mpox emerging in the DRC, to artificial intelligence dominating the Nobel prizes and two astronauts getting stuck’ in space. So what will this year bring Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss the big stories...

Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Joel Cox, the executive producer is Ellie Bury    As wildfires continue to cause devastation in Los Angeles, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Albert van Dijk, professor of water science and management at the Australian National University, about how rising temperatures are causing rapid swings in extreme weatherClips: CBS News, CBS Sunday Morning, King...

Presented by Ian Sample; produced by Madeleine Finlay; sound design by Joel Cox; executive producer Ellie Bury    Scientists are increasingly finding that behaviours once seen as depraved often have a direct physical cause. To find out more, Ian Sample hears from Guy Leschziner, a consultant neurologist and sleep physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in London. His new book, Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology...

Anna Bawden    Wider sample used data from across countries and m people, with a quarter from non European ancestriesA global study has identified previously unknown genetic risk factors for depression because it included a much wider population sample.According to the World Health Organization, . of...

Alex Bellos    The solutions to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set you three puzzles that were interview questions at Paypal, the online payments company ran by a group of billionaire tech bros Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks now better known for their right wing politics. Here they are again with...

Alex Bellos    Mind manglers from the Musk mafiaUPDATE: Read the solutions hereThe book The Founders by Jimmy Soni tells the story of the Paypal Mafia the tech bros who founded and ran the online payments company.The most famous of this troupe Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks are now as well known for...

Alex Bellos    The solutions to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set you the following two puzzles loosely related to . For more information on the number please read the original post. Here they are again with the solutions.Queens and pawns Continue reading...

Alex Bellos    Five fives alive UPDATE: Read the solutions hereAs is traditional for the final column of year, we look ahead to all that the following twelve months will bring us.Numerically speaking, of course. Continue reading...

Guardian Staff    Researchers have unearthed large dinosaur footprints in Oxfordshire, believed to be the biggest site of its kind in the UK. They are from two types of dinosaurs, thought to be the herbivorous cetiosaurus and the carnivorous megalosaurus. The longest trackways are metres in length, and only...

   The Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection from Capture the Atlas features the most extraordinary aurora photos captured over the months. This year, as we reach the solar maximum of this solar cycle, the northern and southern lights have been more active than ever, illuminating...

   Researchers in Russia have unveiled the near intact carcass of a juvenile female mammoth, whose remarkably well preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than , years. The creature was recovered from the Batagaika crater, a huge depression more than metres feet...