How Team GB’s psychologist gets the athletes mentally ready
Jess Thom, lead psychologist for Team GB, tells Madeleine Finlay how she prepares athletes for failure and success – and the challenges that arise when the games are over and they have to return to no...
8 Aug 202416min
Secrets of ageing: making our last years count
Humans have always been obsessed with getting old, or rather staying young, but now science is beginning to catch up. Longevity has become a hot topic, from university laboratories to Silicon Valley s...
6 Aug 202418min
Secrets of ageing: how long could I live?
Humans have always been obsessed with getting old, or rather staying young, and now science is beginning to catch up. Longevity has become a hot topic from university laboratories to Silicon Valley st...
1 Aug 202423min
Secrets of ageing: what makes me age?
Humans have always been obsessed with getting old, or rather staying young, but now science is beginning to catch up. Longevity has become a hot topic, from university laboratories to Silicon Valley s...
30 Jul 202420min
Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand?
A series of super tusker elephant killings has sparked a bitter international battle over trophy hunting and its controversial, often-counterintuitive role in conservation. Biodiversity reporter Phoeb...
25 Jul 202415min
George Monbiot on the record jail terms given to Just Stop Oil activists
Last week, five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway were sentenced to lengthy jail terms by a judge who told them they had ‘cr...
23 Jul 202416min
Is there any point in taking multivitamins?
Multivitamins are cheap, convenient, and provide a little bit of reassurance if our diet isn’t quite as healthy as we’d like. But a recent study of nearly 400,000 people spanning 20 years found they d...
18 Jul 202415min
Can the climate survive AI’s thirst for energy?
Artificial intelligence companies have lofty ambitions for what the technology could achieve, from curing diseases to eliminating poverty. But the energy required to power these innovations is threate...
16 Jul 202418min
