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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Simon Kuper |Andrew McGregor |Iain Chambers |Rachel Porter |Ellie Bury
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: at the Oxford university debating society in the 80s, a generation of aspiring politicians honed the art of winning using jokes, rather than facts
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Madeleine Finlay |Leah Green |Tony Onuchukwu |Ellie Bury
More of us are turning to products containing mushroom extracts, with the medicinal fungi market now worth billions of pounds. Promises of benefits to mental and physical health have seen its popularity spill over from wellness influencers to the shelves of Marks & Spencer – but is there any scientific evidence behind these claims?
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Jillian Ambrose |Madeleine Finlay |Ellie Bury
The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has promised £14bn of investment to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, kicking off what the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, says will be a ‘golden age for clean energy abundance’. But for critics, the technology’s high costs and lengthy construction times have always eclipsed the benefits of abundant low-carbon electricity.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hettie O'Brien |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury
With his brilliant mind and impeccable credentials, it’s little wonder that wealthy clients trusted him with their fortunes. Then they started to get suspicious
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Carey Baraka |Ellie Bury |Nicola Alexandrou
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2023: The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Madeleine Finlay |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
As a companion to the Guardian’s Missing in the Amazon, the global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how can we save the Amazon? In episode one of a three-part series, Watts explores what’s at stake if we fail to act in time.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Rachel Porter |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
Ian Sample meets Jaap de Roode, professor of biology at Emory University in Atlanta, and author of the book Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes and Other Animals Heal Themselves. De Roode explains how a chance discovery got him interested in animal medicine, the amazing ways that creatures use toxins to fight parasites and pathogens, and what humans have learnt about medicine from the animal world
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Samira Shackle |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury
Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers using the courts to make governments around the world take action
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Ian Sample |Tony Onuchukwu |Ellie Bury
Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy. Ian Sample explains to Madeleine Finlay how this new therapy works and how it paves the way for even more complex gene editing techniques.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Sophie Elmhirst |Andrew McGregor |Hattie Moir |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: Gary Hersham has been selling houses to the very rich for decades. At first, £1m was a big deal. Now he sells for £50m, £100m, even £200m. What does it take to stay on top in this cut-throat business?
