The Guardian Articles

The mood outside South Korea’s parliament was a mix of anger and bewilderment on Wednesday afternoon, hours after President Yoon Suk Yeol’s

shocking, albeit thwarted, declaration of martial law

The pre-dawn events caught many South Koreans off guard. Those who had slept through it awoke to the …

Maternal and paternal exposure to common air pollutants may increase the risk of infertility because it can be detrimental to egg, sperm and embryo development,

new research

Previous papers have established that air pollution exposure probably contributes to infertility, but it has been …

It may not have the bright lights of London or Edinburgh, or even the celebrity or notoriety of some of the Great Britain’s better known villages and towns.

But in one respect, Woodbridge in Suffolk seems to trump them all: it is the happiest place to live in Britain. At …

Good morning. Over the past few days, you may have been wondering why a neon pink tank has been following you round the internet. Relax: this isn’t an algorithm judging your taste and predicting your next purchase. It isn’t a tank, either. It is a Jaguar Type 00, it is …

From weight loss jabs

to vibrating pills

Now scientists have overhauled the humble gastric balloon – producing a device that inflates and deflates to keep it effective for longer.

Gastric balloons have been around for …

Miliaku Nwabueze, a senior program manager at Code for Science & Society, had been concerned for some time about the role of technology in state violence. Then, on 7 October of last year, Hamas entered Israel, killing and kidnapping about 1,400 people. Less than a week later, as Israel ordered …

Google’s central London office cost as much as a tech unicorn and the company’s UK boss, Debbie Weinstein, says it pulses with a similar spirit.

“It feels like a startup energy,” she says.

However, we are meeting on a morning when Google has been threatened with a reckoning reserved …

When Tim first tried ChatGPT, he wasn’t very impressed. He had a play around, but ended up cancelling his subscription. Then he started having marriage troubles. Seeking to alleviate his soul-searching and sleepless nights, he took up journalling and found it beneficial. From there, it was a small step to …

A spade-tooth whale – thought to be the world’s rarest whale species – is undergoing dissection in New Zealand, in the first ever examination of a complete specimen.

Spade-toothed whales are a type of beaked whale named for their teeth resembling the spade-like “flensing” blade once used to strip whales …

It was a sight for sore eyes. At least for any speaker who has turned up to an event to discover the organisers easily outnumber the audience. In an anonymous, windowless room in Washington DC, there were just a handful of people seated around a couple of circular tables for …