With its woeful trade deal, Europe prostrated itself before the president. We need a leader who will tell him where to shove it, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

Researchers found moths and hover flies are more negatively affected by urbanisation than bees Gardeners have been urged to work with their neighbours to support moths and hover flies after research found them to be particularly sensitive to urban landscapes. While bees get most of the attention when it comes to supporting pollinators in our cities, researchers found that their less glamorous – but no less important – counterparts from other orders are even more acutely affected by urbanisation. Continue reading...

Four women travel 140m miles across the heavens – only to find their new world in hostile corporate hands. Composer Jennifer Walshe reveals what fed into her epic opera, from low-gravity procreation to Shrek in space

Step offline for just a moment and you see how democratic politics is struggling to cope with the pace of technological change, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Too much exposure to the sun has traditionally been seen as a danger. Now claims that sunscreen is toxic flood the internet. What does the science say?

JD Vance is one of Trump’s best public-facing allies. But even his flip-flop can’t push Jeffrey Epstein out of the headlines, writes John Bowden

There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists...

President Zelensky’s chief of staff has told The Times that potentially thousands of abductees have been forced into subscription once they reach 18 years old

The myth of inequality-driven economic growth and how to achieve real prosperity for all “Economics, as it has been practiced in the last three decades, has been positively harmful for most peopl...