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Megan Nolan
The lost art of paying attention
Sat 17 Jan 2026
John Naughton
The UK is wedded to US tech. Time for a divorce
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Robin McKie
Do we still need astronauts?
Fri 16 Jan 2026
John Naughton
Tesla is being overtaken, but its shares are still in top gear
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Patrick Kidd
Michael Boulter, palaeontologist
Sat 3 Jan 2026
John Naughton
AI has a ‘provenance problem’. Here’s how to avoid it
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Paul Nurse: ‘We are putting barriers in the way of getting the most talented scientists’
Fri 2 Jan 2026
Robin McKie
Jane Goodall, remembered by Robin McKie
Fri 26 Dec 2025
Tara Joshi
The grid: Wilson Bentley’s snowflakes
Sat 20 Dec 2025
John Naughton
Why stablecoins – crypto for adults – have suddenly become a big deal
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Emily H Wilson
Man discovers fire... in Thetford
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Vanessa Drevenakova
Good vibrations could nudge our ageing brains back into a youthful groove
Fri 28 Nov 2025
James Tapper
The ‘digital bridge’ that could help the paralysed walk again
Fri 28 Nov 2025
John Naughton
Meta fought the law and the law didn’t win
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Patricia Clarke
‘I’m sorry Dave’: when AI agents go rogue
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Broken education system is holding back the young, top scientists warn PM
Sun 9 Nov 2025
James Tapper
James Watson, scientist who discovered the double helix
Sun 9 Nov 2025
John Naughton
Would you pay an AI to read your book? Authors may soon not have any choice
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Matthew Cobb
Francis Crick: The science genius with poetry in his DNA
Sat 1 Nov 2025
Laura Spinney
Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Fred Harter
A million-year-old skull from China has rewritten human evolution
Fri 17 Oct 2025
John Naughton
Is the AI bubble history repeating itself? Ask a chatbot
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Evie Breese
Brain-training firm struggles to remember who it has worked with
Wed 15 Oct 2025
John Naughton
The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck
Sat 11 Oct 2025
The machines that made Manchester
Wed 8 Oct 2025
Barney Macintyre
Ten UK data centres could cancel EV emissions gain
Sat 4 Oct 2025
Ara Darzi
Medical funding cuts could kill future breakthroughs
Thu 2 Oct 2025
A breakthrough in treating Huntington’s disease
10 mins • S1, E1202
The Observer leader
The Observer view: Labour should rethink its manifesto
Sun 28 Sept 2025
Patrick Kidd
Obituary: David Baltimore, the visionary virologist
Thu 11 Sept 2025
Patricia Clarke
Tech turmoil threatens investment drive in UK
Sun 7 Sept 2025
Patricia Clarke
The millionaire guinea pigs risking death to live for ever
Sun 7 Sept 2025
James Tapper
The twins helping scientists break new ground
Sat 6 Sept 2025
Adele Zeynep Walton
Stop AI ‘companions’ destroying young lives
Sat 6 Sept 2025
Robin McKie
Carbon dioxide: the stuff of life
Thu 4 Sept 2025
The AI bubble swells
5 mins • S1, E1180
James Kynge
Robot games triumphs bring Chinese tech domination closer
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Gary Bolles
‘AI will help our work but it’s not our colleague’
Mon 18 Aug 2025
Fred Harter
New breakthroughs turn the tide against cancer
Mon 18 Aug 2025
