New head coach hopes team steal limelight on Wednesday against PSG, who only returned to training last week For your first trick, please show us Tottenham can trade blows with the best team Europe has produced this decade. If Thomas Frank wanted to make a statement two months after crossing...
Premier League 2025-26 preview No 15: Newcastle United
Eddie Howe’s side hope the Champions League and smart additions can banish memories of a challenging summer Guardian writers’ predicted position: 7th (NB: this is not necessarily Louise Taylor’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 5th Continue reading...
All the buzz: US dog helps researchers identify bacteria that harms honeybees
Maple, a springer spaniel, is part of a project at a Michigan university focused on risk factors affecting the bees’ health One dog in Michigan hasn’t been content with merely belonging to the species famously known as man’s best friend. She has strived to be bees’ best friend, too. Maple,...
How a Jamaican student invented a self-disinfecting door handle for hospitals: ‘Design that fits reality’
Today, Rayvon Stewart’s model is celebrated as a symbol of the Caribbean’s growing science and technology talent pool When the Jamaican university student Rayvon Stewart invented a workable model for a door handle that could disinfect itself after every touch, it was hailed as a potential gamechanger for hospitals, hotels...
Zooming right in: the vivid landscapes revealed in nanophotography – in pictures
Each year researchers at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology mark National Science Week with a photography contest to see who can snap the best image. Here are some of this year’s entries Continue reading...
Biochar from human waste could solve global fertiliser shortages, study finds
Excrement contains nutrients needed for crop growth and a new source of them could cut farming’s huge CO2 output Charcoal made from human waste could help solve fertiliser shortages as well as reduce pollution and energy use, a study has found. Biochar is a form of charcoal made from organic...
Is sunscreen really toxic? – podcast
For many of us, slathering on sunscreen to protect our skin in the summer months is a no-brainer. But recently social media has been awash with influencers airing their concerns about the potential dangers of this seemingly innocuous product. So is there anything to the claims that sunscreen is toxic?...
Stargazers prepare for meteor shower of the year as the Perseids peak
Yearly spectacle, most visible in northern hemisphere, is caused by Earth passing through debris of ancient comet It is time for stargazers to dig out the deckchairs to try to enjoy what is considered to be one of the best meteor showers of the year. The Perseids are expected to...
‘Deceptively cute’ ancient whale with razor-sharp teeth and eyes the size of tennis balls discovered in Australia
Scientist says new species described from 25-million-year-old fossil found in Victoria ‘was a gnarly whale I wouldn’t want to get in the water with’ “Small and deceptively cute, but definitely not harmless” is how scientists have described a new species of ancient whale, from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on Victoria’s...
‘On call for brain retrievals’: the man who gets American football players examined for CTE after death
The gunman who killed four people in the building of NFL’s New York headquarters asked for his brain be studied for CTE. Neuroscientist Chris Nowinski on what happens next Shortly after news broke that a shooter had breached the New York City skyscraper where the NFL is headquartered and killed...