When family ties become a dreadful burden | Letters

March 26, 2026 · 4:48 PM

Letters: Readers respond to an article on having to care for parents if you had a complicated...

Sperm get lost in space, Australian research into microgravity impacts suggests

March 26, 2026 · 4:00 PM Tory Shepherd

Study into how fertilisation could work in space finds sperm may get disorientated when trying to...

‘What’s your favourite thing about me?’ How to deal with a conversational narcissist

March 25, 2026 · 4:11 PM

We all know a person who sees every chat as an opportunity to go on and on about themselves. And...

Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds

March 25, 2026 · 4:00 PM Hannah Devlin Science Correspondent

Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the...

How magnetic is the moon? A new study cracks the long-standing mystery

March 25, 2026 · 6:00 AM Kate Ravilious

Researchers believe rock samples taken from the Apollo missions gave scientists a misleading...

Starwatch: Look west to see the moon blot out Leo’s brightest star

March 23, 2026 · 6:00 AM Stuart Clark

Regulus will suddenly disappear from view for a couple of hours on the first evening of British...

Weight-loss drugs do work – but not on their own | Letters

March 22, 2026 · 4:51 PM

Letters: GLP-1 medicines work best alongside lifestyle adjustments, writes Dr Sam Robson. Plus...

Is time a figment of our imaginations?

March 22, 2026 · 12:00 PM Jo Marchant

Cosmologists and physicists come up empty handed when they attempt to pin down time. So what,...

‘I’ve seen the devil’: Brazil’s UFO capital marks 30 years since ‘alien encounter’

March 21, 2026 · 12:00 PM Tom Phillips in Varginha

Sightings in Varginha in 1996 have been dismissed as hoax, but saga continues to draw people from...

Christine McCartney obituary

March 20, 2026 · 11:12 AM Julie Russell

Other lives: Public health microbiologist who advised the government following the poisoning of...

Archaeological site in Chile upends theory of how humans populated the Americas … again

March 19, 2026 · 6:00 PM John Bartlett in Santiago

Discovery at Monte Verde puts north-to-south expansion theory back at centre of heated debate on...

Molecule in python blood could pave way for new obesity drugs, scientists say

March 19, 2026 · 10:00 AM Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Researchers find snake metabolite that suppresses appetite of obese mice ‘without some of...