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December 2024

  • Australia school students

    ‘Alarm bells’: why are Australian boys doing better than girls in maths and science?

  • Schoolchildren and teacher use giant dice in a maths classroom.

    English pupils do better than expected in international maths and science tests

November 2024

  • Hoshyar Nooshin in front of the Lamella Dome, donated by British Aluminium to the University of Surrey in recognition of his work chairing the Third International Conference on Spatial Structures, held at Surrey in 1984

    Other lives
    Hoshyar Nooshin obituary

    Other lives: Professor whose research focused on the mathematical basis of spacial structures

October 2024

  • A man and a woman look sad watching a movie in cinema theatre

    Experiencing intense emotions with others makes people feel more connected, study finds

    Participants bonded more after watching films that sparked intense emotions
  • Derek Hardy in 2022

    Other lives
    Derek Hardy obituary

    Other lives: Science teacher at the first British secondary school to install a computer with a second career as a Liberal councillor
  • xkcd2

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? The enigma of Randall Munroe

    And an intersection of squares

September 2024

  • Mom and her three kids looking at an ipad together

    The Guardian view on the other influencers: a golden era for science education

    Editorial: YouTube isn’t always a stupefaction engine. Curious children and other autodidacts have unrivalled access to knowledge
  • Grenville Turner with his mass spectrometer MS1, for Obits

    Grenville Turner obituary

    Geochemist who jointly invented a method of radioactive dating used on rock samples brought back from the moon

    • Ten children drew their favourite sea creatures. Then Australia’s leading artists responded – in pictures

    • Ig Nobel prize goes to team who found mammals can breathe through anuses

    • UK’s science minister declares end to Tory ‘war on universities’

August 2024

  • Boy wearing glasses cooking with white flour and kneading bread dough.

    Activities we should bake into schoolchildren’s education

    Letters: Lesley Clark and Glennis Thomas respond to a recommendation of activities to enhance the education of primary schoolchildren
  • Michael Rosen

    Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn

    Michael Rosen
    Hands-on learning works: no wonder science professionals are urging schools to go beyond the Gove curriculum, says writer Michael Rosen

    • Add ice-lolly licking to England primary school curriculum, urge scientists

    • A-level students choosing narrower range of subjects after Gove changes

    • Hiring women, rather than just talking about it, works. That doesn’t mean all men are on board, it turns out

      Renate van der Zee

July 2024

  • Arash Abizadeh

    Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that

    Arash Abizadeh
    Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

June 2024

  • Ailsa Davidson as Marie Curie.

    Marie Curie review – musical dash through the scientist’s life leaves your head spinning

    This fast and furious Korean show has high-voltage tunes, but suffers from schmaltz and a breathlessly hectic pace

May 2024

  • The blurry head of what appears to be a woman is on the right; in focus are her arms in a white lab smock and hands in lavender gloves, holding a purple-and-white instrument on the other side of a plastic shield, brightly lit.

    Scientists get creative in monitoring bird flu outbreak – by testing feces

    With second human case of H5N1 reported, CDC launches dashboard to monitor wastewater, and recruits students to help

March 2024

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? The word game at the cutting edge of computer science

    The answer to today’s puzzles
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