Martin Rees: ‘Climate change is a doddle compared with terraforming Mars’
The astronomer royal on cyber-attacks, Brexit and life on Mars
The five: surprising talents of the Neanderthals
They were masters of many different and complex disciplines
Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic
Exclusive: Hannah Fry says ethical pledge needed in tech fields that will shape future
One giant leap for Indian cinema: how Bollywood embraced sci-fi
As the country seeks to establish itself as a space power, audiences are developing an appetite for the extraterrestrial on the big screen
The five: chimeras created by science
A chimera is an organism with genetic material from two or more sources
Neuroscientists decode brain speech signals into written text
Study funded by Facebook aims to improve communication with paralysed patients
ME and the perils of internet activism
Research into the chronic illness, which affects 250,000 people in the UK, may be stalling because of bitter online criticism
Sarah Parcak: ‘Imagine being able to zoom in from space to see a pottery shard!’
The space archaeologist on her GlobalXplorer project, deterring looters and what ancient Egypt reveals about our future
How baseless fears over 5G rollout created a health scare
Misconceptions about the technology and lack of consultation with local communities may have boosted conspiracy theories
‘At last I can feel again’: robotic hand gives user a sense of touch
Man whose arm was amputated after accident can hold delicate objects such as grapes and eggs
Peter Iredale obituary
Other lives: Last director of the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Harwell laboratory in Oxfordshire
The five: new uses for bacteria
Eating plastic waste, cleaning up oil spills and detecting tumours… how these micro-organisms can help change the world
The Guardian view on moon landings: a new race for space
Editorial: The Apollo 11 mission inspired the world. What has happened in the ensuing half-century?
What’s really behind the spread of Lyme disease? Clue: it’s not the Pentagon
After my tick bite I realised that the climate crisis was a more likely culprit, says Guardian reporter Peter Beaumont
Without these women, man would not have walked on the moon
Numerous unsung women, from computer engineers and mathematicians to secretaries and seamstresses, helped put a man on the moon. Here are the stories of some of those women