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The award winning Science Weekly is the best place to learn about the big discoveries and debates in biology, chemistry, physics, and sometimes even maths. From the Guardian science desk Ian...
To celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s centenary, Madeleine Finlay catches up with natural history writer Patrick Barkham, who has met the ce...
Three people have died after an outbreak of hantavirus onboard a cruise ship travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde. The World Health Organ...
The transition towards renewable energy received a boost last week when representatives from 57 countries met in Santa Marta, Colombia, for...
Madeleine Finlay sits down with co-host and Guardian science editor Ian Sample to talk through three eye-catching stories from the week, inc...
Social media is awash with content about food intolerances and the symptoms to look out for. But figuring out whether you actually have one,...
Madeleine Finlay sits down with science editor Ian Sample to hear about some of the winners of the Breakthrough Prize, which held its ceremo...
Earlier this month the AI company Anthropic said it had created a model so powerful that, out of a sense of responsibility, it was not going...
Madeleine Finlay sits down with co-host and science editor Ian Sample to discuss three eye-catching stories from the week, including a revie...
Alongside the oil and gas stranded in the strait of Hormuz is another commodity vital to today’s economy: helium. It is a critical element i...
This week Artemis II’s four-astronaut crew broke Apollo 13’s distance record, becoming the humans to travel the farthest from Earth. Now on...
The number of human cases of guinea worm, a painful and debilitating tropical illness, fell to a record low of just 10 last year, according...
Saunas and cold plunge pools are popping up everywhere in the UK, bringing fiery heat and icy cold to a beach, city farm or park near you. T...
If all goes to plan, Artemis II, Nasa’s mission to return humans to the moon, will launch this week. The mission will mark the farthest that...
A box the size of a filing cabinet was lifted by crane, slowly moved and placed very carefully in the back of an unassuming lorry earlier th...
Why is it like something to be ourselves and how do physical processes create our subjective experience? These questions get to the heart of...
On the evening of 29 December 2011, police officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men wal...
Over the weekend, news emerged of an outbreak of meningitis among university and school students in Kent in south-east England. The outbreak...
Grey-market injectable peptides – a category of substances with obscure, alphanumeric names such as BPC-157, GHK-Cu, or TB-500 – have develo...
The Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catching science stories from the week, including a stu...
Among the many justifications Donald Trump has presented for the US and Israel attacking Iran has been the supposedly imminent threat posed...
The conflict in the Middle East has sent energy prices soaring, and for countries that import a high proportion of their fuel, it’s a remind...
In the past three months, Donald Trump’s White House has reportedly used AI twice to effect regime change – once in its capture of Venezuela...
Since the 1960s, global GDP has been rapidly rising and living standards have reached record highs. But something else has been rocketing up...
For a long time fat was seen simply as an inert yellow substance wrapping around our bodies, but now that’s changing. Scientists are beginni...
Madeleine Finlay sits down with science editor Ian Sample and science correspondent Nicola Davis to discuss three eye-catching stories, incl...
Testimonials about the beneficial health effects of magnesium supplements abound online, with influencers claiming that a daily pill can hel...
In late January a new social media site took a certain corner of the internet by storm. Moltbook was conceived as a space where AI assistant...
The release of the latest batch of documents relating to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has shed further light on his close rel...
On a recent trip to Lake Geneva in Switzerland, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston witnessed the impact of one of the planet’s most potent...
Just like men, women are increasingly being told by online influencers that the classic symptoms of middle age could be down to low testoste...
If TikTok influencers are to be believed, testosterone, or T, is the answer to everything from fitness frustrations and fatigue to low libid...
Last week, a UN report declared that the world has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ with many human water systems past the point...
The Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catching science stories from the week, including a stu...
Studies detecting microplastics throughout human bodies have made for alarming reading in recent years. But last week, the Guardian’s enviro...
Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions on dreams and nightmares to Dr Michelle Carr, director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory in Montreal’...
Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions on sleep to Dr Allie Hare, consultant physician in respiratory and sleep medicine at Guy’s and St Thoma...
Last year was full of unexpected science news, from the discovery of a new colour, to the interstellar visitor 3I/Atlas passing by our solar...
The US capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Saturday left many people wondering why? Donald Trump hinted at an answer wh...
Kevin Hall spent 21 years at the US National Institutes of Health and became known globally for his pioneering work on ultra-processed foods...
More of us are turning to products containing mushroom extracts, with the medicinal fungi market worth billions of pounds. Promises of menta...
Psychologists have typically believed that we become less curious as we age, but recent research has shown curiosity actually becomes more t...
Scientists are beginning to understand that ageing is not simply a linear process and we age, according to recent research, in three acceler...
Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and science educator who has worked on a number of instruments that are revolutionising our v...
We all know eating too much sugar is bad for our health – but would we be better off replacing it with artificial sweetener? It’s a question...
The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message: they could exit the medical system and take back their power by free bir...
The Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, sits down with co-host Madeleine Finlay to discuss three eye-catching stories from the week, incl...
At this time of year when stress levels are high, we can find ourselves being sent over the edge by frustrating post office queues, infuriat...
Science editor Ian Sample sits down with co-host Madeleine Finlay and science correspondent Hannah Devlin to hear about three eye-catching s...
Artificial intelligence can execute tasks in seconds that once took humans hours, if not days to complete. While this may be great for produ...
Patrick Vallance, the minister for science, research and innovation, recently unveiled a plan to cut animal testing through greater use of A...