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Burst pipe floods wildlife meadow for fourth time
Repeated flooding of a key conservation site in Oxfordshire leaves a charity frustrated.
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See tiny organisms on show in microscopic video competition
The winning video features tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease.
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Cognitive resilience helps to predict Alzheimer’s dementia
Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02897-4The trait could explain why symptoms vary in severity between people with similar brain pathology.
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Chinese companies doubled down on science after US tech restrictions
Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02946-yAffected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.
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New wild cat species discovered - with only one known living member
A spotted wildcat long mistaken for relatives has been identified as a new species in Bolivia.
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Repeat offender fined for searching for gold in protected river
Brian Wright, 68, from Henley-upon-Thames, was caught gold panning on a protected river in north Wales.
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Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story review – it’s like Ryan Murphy’s new series was written by adolescent boys
The latest Monster instalment, about the 1892 Borden axe murders, is packed with periods and beheadings, and feels like it was made up as they went along Okaaay – here’s what I think must have happened. Some time in the past year or two, Ryan Murphy discovered that women…
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Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s second term: ‘Has anyone ever done a worse job?’
Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s midterm bribes, Pete Hegseth’s ‘grooming standards’ and Don Jr’s wedding bankrolled by a Russian oligarch Late-night hosts dug into Donald Trump’s attempts to sway the upcoming midterms and the Russian oligarch who bankrolled his son Donald…
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Beck: ‘What does a devil’s haircut look like? Anything with a lot of architecture and wild flights of fancy’
The genre-fluid singer answers your questions on being funky v lonesome, his infamous MTV interview with Thurston Moore and why he said yes to performing with a chain-smoking alcoholic robot • Read Alexis Petridis’s 5* review of new album Ride Lonesome You’ve been performing…
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Watching NAZA was like peering through a window – and seeing the machinery of killing in Gaza | Mahmoud Mushtaha
For so long I wondered why I survived while family and friends were killed. Now I know the only difference between life and death may have been an AI algorithm The lights go down, and for a moment I forget I’m watching a screen. It fills with a rooftop in Tel Aviv at night,…
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Human harps, massive bananas and dogging: the 20 best Busby Berkeley dance routines – ranked!
To mark 50 years since the director and choreographer’s death, we count down his best fantastical, kaleidoscopic numbers, from erotic silhouettes to sinister tap dancers So you thought Cats (2019) was tacky? Wait until you see Ruby Keeler (AKA Mrs Al Jolson) gambolling around as…
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Beabadoobee: Pylon review – voice of a generation’s surprisingly relatable rampage through rock star rage
(Dirty Hit) The Filipino-British songwriter’s fourth album sprinkles 90s alt fuzz with disarmingly sweet melodies and an impressive host of guests including Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Turnstile’s Brendan Yates Last month, the Guardian published a feature about the demise of…
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Why stop at Wuthering Heights: House of the Damned? Bring on Mrs Dalloway’s Rampage!
It isn’t just Winnie the Pooh – now the star of Blood & Honey II. Budget shockers are treating any story with expired copyright as ripe for murderous exploitation It is significant that, at this point in our cultural journey, we have become accustomed to film producers jumping…
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Dear Ed Sheeran, fence-sitting is so last century: musicians can no longer opt out of politics | Zoe Williams
It’s all very 2026: with a stadium owner on one side and angry support acts on the other, the cornered star will have to pick a side Ed Sheeran, seeking to stay out of politics, has become, in this moment, the most political artist in the world. And in trying to leave himself…
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Nepal to use new flood study to claim millions from UN climate disaster fund
A new study says climate change was a likely factor in the massive flood on the Nepal-Tibet border last month.
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The farmer who turned to singing after bovine TB silenced his fields
Dairy farmer Mervyn Kelso struggled with the sadness of the empty fields when he lost his entire herd to bovine TB.
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Jonathan Majors’s anti-Islam action thriller is laughably terrible far-right propaganda
The disgraced former Marvel villain has found work with Ben Shapiro for hateful campus-set thriller Run Hide Fight: Infidels, which makes its politics clear from the outset Behold the new and improved Jonathan Majors: paragon of hypermasculinity, the Denzel Washington of the…
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South Park – I mean, South America – is back, with no Donald Trump in sight (yet)
After adopting the president’s fondness for renaming things ‘America’, the season 29 premiere sees Trey Parker and Matt Stone use e-bikes to critique the ruination of the US South Park has been renamed South America. That was the main news ahead of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s…
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‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the heart surgery that inspired his new sci-fi horror
Notorious for ultra-violent movies like Drive and The Neon Demon, the Dane had lost the will to direct until ‘the Tom Cruise of surgeons’ saved his life – and triggered an astonishing creative rebirth Nicolas Winding Refn has his phone out, showing me one of the goriest scenes…
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Author Correction: Genomic deletion of malic enzyme 2 confers collateral lethality in pancreatic cancer
Nature, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11134-xAuthor Correction: Genomic deletion of malic enzyme 2 confers collateral lethality in pancreatic cancer
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Mercury is shrinking with age — faster than thought
Nature, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02898-3Impacts by space objects have obscured some of the evidence of the planet’s contraction over the past 4.5 billion years.
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Schoolhouse meals serve up an income bump
Nature, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02896-5Modelling shows a link between feeding programmes and higher potential earning in five African nations.
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How fast are you ageing? Ask AI
Nature, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02913-7A new system will help scientists to refine large language models for longevity research and clarify ‘biological’ age.
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Exclusive: New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun’s tomb
Nature, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02621-2Geophysical survey yields ‘tantalizing’ data that could point to Nefertiti’s burial place – but it’s too early to draw definitive conclusions.
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Take a risk or play it safe? Neuronal tug-of-war helps the brain decide
Nature, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02911-9Using a video game involving bombs and treasure chests, researchers show how neural activity flickers between two regions of the frontal cortex when the brain weighs up a tricky decision.
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How a team of AIs discovered a promising lung-cancer drug
Nature, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02954-yResearchers developed a ‘virtual biotech’ made up of as many as 37,000 agents reporting to an 'chief scientist'.
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Who gets credit in the AI era? OpenAI maths bombshell sparks debate
Nature, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02910-wControversy around OpenAI’s claim to have solved the Navier–Stokes problem highlights how researchers could be inadvertently sharing — and absorbing— ideas through chatbots.
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Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality
By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those crushing free speech In a statement about Macklemore being dropped from his US stadium…
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Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough
Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.
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The secret of Mozart’s genius unlocked – has a teenager succeeded where generations of musicologists have failed?
US student Linus Chen-Plotkin has analysed music by four canonical composers looking for patterns. Turns out Mozart’s music moves in the least predictable way It’s a question that has taxed musical thinkers for centuries: just what is it about one composer’s music that makes it…
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Colombia and Brazil deadliest countries for environmental activists, report says
The two countries accounted for 52% of killings of environmental activists in 2025, according to Global Witness.
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Third Heathrow runway should only go ahead if airlines pay for cleaner flying, say advisers
The government's climate advisers say Heathrow's third runway cannot be approved under current climate policies.
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Inflection points and transitions in Alzheimer’s disease
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11110-5Inflection points and transitions in Alzheimer’s disease
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Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Salicylic Acid Receptors
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11123-0Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Salicylic Acid Receptors
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Why most stars don’t have outbursts like our Sun’s
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02833-6A strong magnetic field can disrupt a star’s ability to produce the fountains of matter called coronal mass ejections.
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Transplanted human brain-tissue takes root in mice without a cortex
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02927-1Extensive cellular integration might provide platform for in vivo testing of new therapies — plus, the AI tool that turns papers into ‘virtual corresponding authors’.
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What weapon could the US have put into space?
The announcement by the US points to a developing field of modern warfare in the Earth's orbit.
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Will El Niño bring winter snow to the UK?
Will El Niño bring winter snow to the UK? Matt Taylor looks ahead to the autumn and winter months.
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UK could 'unlock' 100 more oil and gas projects, say North Sea bosses
The UK could supply half of its oil and gas needs without imports if the government showed more support for the sector, an OEUK report claims.
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Giant jellyfish with '40ft tentacles' captured on camera
Iestyn Morgan has set out to make Welsh aquatic life "more accessible" for people to see.
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Mass nesting brings swarms of turtles to Mexican beach
Thousands of turtles arrived at La Escobilla beach in Oaxaca within 48 hours, sanctuary officials said.
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