Science & technology
I’m in heaven
The James Webb Space Telescope opens for business
Astronomy will never be the same again
Botany
A new giant waterlily has turned up at Kew Gardens
But dried specimens of it had been in hiding there for over 170 years
Beyond the Standard Model
Ten years on from the Higgs boson, what is next for physics?
New particles beckon as the Large Hadron Collider returns to life
Palaeontology
How the dinosaurs took over
They were better than their competitors at surviving the cold
Faecal transplants
People bank blood. Why not faeces?
Storing your stools when you are young may help you later in life
Neuroscience
How neurons really work is being elucidated
That will help both medicine and the search for better artificial intelligence
A giant bacterium
The biggest bacterium yet discovered lives on Guadeloupe
It can grow to be a centimetre long
Sputnik V vaccination
Are the Russian covid-vaccine results accurate?
A new study calls into question a published clinical trial
Infertility
A neglected way to unblock Fallopian tubes needs revisiting
Fertility doctors may be missing a trick
Nuclear waste
The first underground warren for disposing of spent nuclear fuel
Finland leads the way. Sweden and others may follow
Death of a mastodon
The Buesching mastodon’s story is imprinted in his ivory
He died fighting, about 13,200 years ago, aged 34