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In late January a new social media site took a certain corner of the internet by storm. Mo... more

The release of the latest batch of documents relating to the late child sex offender Jeffr... more

On a recent trip to Lake Geneva in Switzerland, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston witnes... more

Just like men, women are increasingly being told by online influencers that the classic sy... more

If TikTok influencers are to be believed, testosterone, or T, is the answer to everything ... more

Last week, a UN report declared that the world has entered an era of ‘global water bankrup... more

The Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catch... more

Studies detecting microplastics throughout human bodies have made for alarming reading in ... more

Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions on dreams and nightmares to Dr Michelle Carr, directo... more

Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions on sleep to Dr Allie Hare, consultant physician in re... more

Last year was full of unexpected science news, from the discovery of a new colour, to the ... more

The US capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Saturday left many people ... more

Kevin Hall spent 21 years at the US National Institutes of Health and became known globall... more

More of us are turning to products containing mushroom extracts, with the medicinal fungi ... more

Psychologists have typically believed that we become less curious as we age, but recent re... more

Scientists are beginning to understand that ageing is not simply a linear process and we a... more

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and science educator who has worked on a nu... more

We all know eating too much sugar is bad for our health – but would we be better off repla... more

The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message: they could exit the me... more