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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Madeleine Finlay |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
Direct to consumer tests that claim to tell us our biological – as opposed to chronological – age are getting a lot of attention, but what can they really tell us about our health? Science editor Ian Sample talks to Dr Brian H Chen, an epidemiologist at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, who has conducted research into a variety of these tests called epigenetic clocks.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Charlotte Higgins |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury
The artist Jeremy Deller can’t really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. And later this year, he is planning to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most daring public artwork yet
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Ed Pilkington |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury
The Black Panthers shook America awake before the party was eviscerated by the US government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride and burning lessons for today
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Ashifa Kassam |Jillian Ambrose |Tom Glasser |Madeleine Finlay |Tony Onuchukwu | +1 more
Presented by Ian Sample with Ashifa Kassam and Jillian Ambrose, produced by Tom Glasser and Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, the executive producer was Ellie BuryThu 1 May 2025 00.00 EDTAuthorities are still trying to understand what triggered the massive power outage that left the majority of the Iberian Peninsula without electricity on Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Damien Gayle |Rachel Porter |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
Just Stop Oil, the climate activism group behind motorway blockades, petrol station disruption and tomato soup attacks on major artworks, has disbanded after staging a final action in London this weekend. To find out why the group has decided to hang up the famous orange high-vis, Madeleine Finlay hears from our environment correspondent Damien Gayle who has been covering Just Stop Oil since its inception.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Ian Sample |Rachel Porter |Tony Onuchukwu |Ellie Bury
Madeleine Finlay and Ian Sample discuss three intriguing science stories from the week. From a hint at alien life on a distant planet, to a clue in the search for answers over why colon cancer rates are rising in the under 50’s, and news from a group of scientists who claim to have experienced a colour no one has ever seen before.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Nicola Davis |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
The American biotech company Colossal Biosciences recently made headlines around the world with claims it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct at the end of the last ice age. But does what the company has done amount to ‘de-extinction’ or should we instead think of these pups as genetically modified versions of the grey wolves that exist today?
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Samanth Subramanian |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury
The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks?
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jessica Glenza |Ian Sample |Rachel Porter |Tony Onuchukwu |Ellie Bury
Presented by Ian Sample with Jessica Glenza, produced by Rachel Porter, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, the executive producer is Ellie BuryThu 17 Apr 2025 00.00 EDTAs a measles outbreak expands across the US, comments by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr have come under scrutiny.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Phoebe Weston |Tony Onuchukwu |Ellie Bury
Switzerland is leading the world in purifying its water of micropollutants, a concoction of chemicals often found in bodies of water that look crystal clear. They include common medicines like antidepressants and antihistamines, but have unknown and potentially damaging consequences for human and ecosystem health. In the second of a two-part series, Phoebe Weston travels to Geneva to find out how the country has transformed its rivers from sewage-filled health hazards to pristine swimming spots.
