A union representing people in the gaming sector said 31 people were fired at Rockstar’s UK studios.

Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say

A new memo on the climate crisis from Bill Gates relies on “straw man” arguments about the threat to humanity and “false dichotomies” between spending on climate or aid for the poor, some climate scientists say.

Published last week, the tech billionaire’s 17-page missive...

AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list

“Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025.

Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including...

This hit debut from Finland is intensely readable, but could have delved more deeply into the links between human progress and environmental destruction

In November 1741 Georg Wilhelm Steller, “theologian, naturalist, and curious man”, was shipwrecked on an island between Alaska and Russia. There he found, floating in the shallow waters, a vast sirenian, Hydrodamalis gigas, nine feet long and...

Hut where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England list

A rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut regarded as the birthplace of immunology – revolutionising global public health and saving countless lives – has been added to the nation’s heritage at risk register.

The hut belonged to Edward Jenner (1749-1823), regarded as someone who has...

The largest supermoon of the year, the so-called ‘beaver’ moon is the biggest and brightest of 2025, just 357,000 km from Earth

Watch November’s ‘beaver’ supermoon rising over Sydney’s Bondi beach – video

Glowing September supermoon lights up the sky – in pictures

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Jon Watts, the Guardian’s global environment editor, goes in search of answers to the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how to save the Amazon?

In episode two of this miniseries from June 2025, Jon meets the people trying to make sure the rainforest is worth more standing than cut down – from a government minister attempting to establish Brazil’s...

The art of making an app by describing it to artificial intelligence (AI) tops 10 new terms on the shortlist.

Astronomers cast doubt on Nobel prize-winning theory and suggest universe could end in ‘big crunch’

Astronomers have cast doubt on a Nobel prize-winning theory that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, suggesting that instead it may be slowing down.

If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe, raising the possibility that rather than expanding for...

In the 2023 remarks from the King he said AI was “no less important than the discovery of electricity” but warned the risks must be tackled.

SNP MP Pete Wishart says he is seeking legal advice over the “disturbing” AI-generated social media post.

Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence

Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.

A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78, concluded that about 4,200 years ago,...

For parents who have buried infants born too soon, a device like the AquaWomb is a miracle in waiting – and an impossible choice

Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her body before she felt remotely ready. She knew, with a mother’s pit-of-the-stomach intuition, that her baby was not ready either.

At just 23 weeks of...

The three astronauts from the Shenzhou-20 mission flew to the Tiangong space station in April, and were expected to return on Wednesday

The return to Earth of three Chinese astronauts has been delayed until an unspecified date after their spacecraft was apparently struck by a small piece of debris, according to Chinese state media.

The three astronauts from the Shenzhou-20 mission flew to the...

Global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how to save the Amazon?

In episode one of this miniseries from June 2025, Jon explores what’s at stake if we fail to act in time. He hears about the crucial role of the rainforest for South America and the global climate, and asks how cattle...

The car-maker is lobbying fiercely for the pay package, which is being voted on ahead of its AGM on Thursday.

Research uses eye-tracking data to examine some people’s extraordinary recognition ability

They have been used in the search for the Salisbury novichok poisoners, finding murder suspects and even spotting sexual predators. Now, research has revealed fresh insights into why super-recognisers are so good at identifying faces.

Previous research has suggested people with an extraordinary ability to...