
Ian Sample
Guardian science editor and podcast presenter | PhD | Massive, shortlisted Royal Society Science Book Prize | Sony Award | Leaks to [email protected]
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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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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Tony Onuchukwu |Leah Green |Ilan Goodman
Vast areas of the ocean are getting darker, according to research based on satellite imaging. Marine ecosystems are governed by faint light changes – from mass nightly migrations to coral spawning cycles – so what happens when that light begins to fade? Ian Sample talks to Prof Tim Smyth from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory about why this darkening is happening and how life in the ‘photic zone’ – the sunlit upper layer that is home to 90% of marine organisms – could be profoundly affected
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ian Sample
Humanity must prepare for a sweeping revolution as nations and companies gear up to build moon bases, space stations and orbiting factories, and uncover evidence – if evidence is out there – that we are not alone in the universe.
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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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“Nature does not like zombies.” https://t.co/Xr2skWk0oW

AHOY! We’re taking the Science Weekly podcast to @BritishSciFest on Thursday to ask: Will AI make a good companion? Come armed with hopes / fears /questions for @mhairi_aitken and @tonyjprescott Presented & produced by @MadiFinlay and @elliebury https://t.co/fWFrGN81vv

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