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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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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Mehdi Hasan |Alex Atack |Eleanor Biggs |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin | +1 more
“So many things have shocked me about the past 100 days,” says the Guardian US columnist and author of Win Every Argument, Mehdi Hasan. “Even for me, even the person who was saying it’s going to be so bad, it’s much worse than even I thought.”What’s been shocking to Hasan about Donald Trump’s second term so far is not the policies – they were laid out on the campaign trail – but the lack of resistance.
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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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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Libby Brooks |Eli Block |Tom Glasser |Natalie Ktena |Joel Cox | +1 more
On paper it does not sound like something that would spark nationwide interest. Last week the UK supreme court gave its judgment on a case brought by a women’s group against the Scottish government over the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018. But its judgment – that the word “woman” in equality law refers only to biological sex – has upended years of legal interpretation. And the news of the ruling led to celebrations, protest and an outpouring of emotion.
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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 | Helen Pidd |Amy Hawkins |Eleanor Biggs |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
After a fortnight in which Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs evolved into an escalating trade war with China, a sense of defiant nationalism has been building in the east Asian country.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Maanvi Singh |Matthew Pearce |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli
Kilmar Ábrego García was 16 when he came to the US, after his family were targeted by criminal gangs in his home of El Salvador. He joined his brother in Maryland and started a new life. In 2019, he was arrested by immigration officials and accused of being a gang member, but his lawyers argued there was no evidence for this, pointed out he had no criminal convictions and insisted he should not be sent back to a country where he was himself at risk from criminal gangs.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Jessica Murray |Alex Atack |Priya Bharadia |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin
“It’s been absolutely unbelievable,” William Timms, a pest controller, tells Hannah Moore. “Since March, calls have gone up 50%. Usually, I’m dealing with about three or four rodent jobs a day this time of year. And then I’ve got my insect jobs on top. “But I’ve had to put my insect jobs on the back burner, because I’m just being inundated with rat calls. I’m doing about nine or 10 a day at the moment.”Birmingham’s rubbish collectors have been on an all-out strike since early March.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Phoebe Weston |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
The UK is known for its national parks: areas of outstanding natural beauty with rolling hills and crystal-clear streams and lakes. But research has shown that England’s most protected rivers are full of pharmaceuticals.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Rebecca Ratcliffe |Eli Block |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
“It took around four to five minutes for the earthquake to shake and then it stopped and shook again. It is the most severe earthquake I have experienced in my life.”Esther J is a reporter based in Bangkok, Thailand, more than 600 miles (966km) away from her home country of Myanmar – the epicentre of last week’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake.
