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The Atlantic Is Slowing — And What Comes Next Affects Britain First

The Atlantic Is Slowing — And What Comes Next Affects Britain First

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 13:15 The signals are quiet. They come from buoys drifting in the western Atlantic, from brain scans lit up by waste-clearing proteins, from particle detectors catching something that has no right to exist. This week, science did what it does at its

The Hidden Codes — What Science Just Found Beneath the Surface

The Hidden Codes — What Science Just Found Beneath the Surface

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 11:08 The things that matter most in biology tend to operate where nobody is looking. This week delivered a string of discoveries that share one uncomfortable thread: we have been staring at the surface while the real machinery hums underneath — in our

Artemis II Heads Home — And Science Keeps Rewriting the Rules

Artemis II Heads Home — And Science Keeps Rewriting the Rules

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 09:20 Four astronauts are hurtling toward Earth at thousands of kilometres per hour, carrying photographs no human eye has seen before and stories that will take months to fully tell. Artemis II — NASA's first crewed lunar mission in over half

From Moon to Heartbeat: Science Tightens Its Grip on the Unknown

From Moon to Heartbeat: Science Tightens Its Grip on the Unknown

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 00:45 Somewhere above us, four astronauts are preparing to hit the atmosphere at 40,000 kilometres per hour. Below, Oxford researchers are teaching machines to see heart failure half a decade before it arrives. And in labs studying obesity drugs, geneticists are