From the gold rush to civil rights, the moon landing to 9/11, the US has always understood, mythologised and sold itself through the power of the still image

The neurologist Orlando Swayne doesn’t suggest everyone can recover. But he does argue that early, targeted and intense therapy can sometimes bring about life-changing improvements – and we have a mor...

The decline of the glossy magazine industry as depicted in the sequel made me cry – but I shed no tears for how it was back then, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

Britain’s standing in the world was never the same after its assault on Egypt in 1956. Now the US risks repeating history in the Middle East

Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donations

Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, the Atlantic journalist Ross Andersen, and Jan Wörner, a former director general of the European Space Agency

Cern researchers are testing traps capable of moving antimatter, which explodes into energy as soon as it comes into contact with regular matter

Madeleine Finlay hears from journalist Adrienne Matei and from Dr Anna Barnard, an associate professor at Imperial College London who researches peptides

Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

Podcast Episode · Where The Wild Thoughts Are · 16 February · 54m

Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 28/10/2025 · 22m

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Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

The renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died aged 91. She will be remembered for her observations that revolutionised our understanding of chimpanzees, as well as her tireless environmental advoca...

At a recent ceremony for world leaders in Beijing, a hot mic picked up a surprising exchange between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about the possibility of living to 150. Putin suggested the secret mi...

Podcast Episode · Where The Wild Thoughts Are · 08/09/2025 · 35m

Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’

Science editor Ian Sample hears from health reporter Melody Schreiber and former CDC director Mandy Cohen to find out what a week of chaos at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention could me...

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

An England victory on the final day against India would probably nudge his 111 as the greatest at the Oval in the modern age

Podcast Episode · Today in Focus · 31/07/2025 · 28m

Tell Congress to reject any proposal that weakens the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Weather forecasting, emergency prepared...

Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Hosted by Michael Safi and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining storytelling with insightful analysis and personal testim...

Letters: Readers respond to an article on how too many low-quality papers and journals are being churned out

Health secretary demurs on questions about vaccine stance and defends Republican plans to cut healthcare

Authors of the Sixth National Climate Assessment were disbanded today by the Trump administration with a notice that the assessment is being “reevaluated.” Statement by Dr. Rachel Cleetus, a UCS exper...

Chinese national, 27, reportedly returned to Japan’s highest mountain days after first rescue to retrieve his phone

Letters: The scientist reflects on a speculative idea about human perception in a 2004 book he co-wrote and, two decades on, an experiment that has produced a colour no one has seen before

Podcast Episode · Today in Focus · 21/04/2025 · 29m

Education department says $2.3bn in funds to be frozen after university rejects slew of demands as political ploy

Invertebrates don’t get the attention lavished on cute pets or apex predators, but these unsung heroes are some of the most impressive and resilient creatures on the planet. So when the Guardian opene...

Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models

Older adults in Wales who had the jab were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia that those not vaccinated

The spherical cow approximation is widely used in the literature, but is rarely justified. Here, I propose several schemes for extending the spherical cow approximation to a full multipole expansion, ...

The field of astronomy evolves rapidly, and it is essential to keep up with these changes in order to effectively communicate with the broader community. However, communication itself also changes as ...