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Ian Sample

Ian Sample is science editor of the Guardian. Before joining the newspaper in 2003, he was a journalist at New Scientist and worked at the Institute of Physics as a journal editor. He has a PhD in biomedical materials from Queen Mary's, University of London. Ian also presents the Science Weekly podcast

May 2024

  • Scientist in a lab

    Scientists create vaccine with potential to protect against future coronaviruses

  • A black and white scan of the unfurled scroll

    ‘Second renaissance’: tech uncovers ancient scroll secrets of Plato and co

  • A nurse holding a syringe gives a man an injection

    Science Weekly
    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

  • Astronauts could attach themselves to a bungee cord and run around a circus Wall of Death, say scientists.

    Astronauts could run round ‘Wall of Death’ to keep fit on moon, say scientists

April 2024

  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

    Science Weekly
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

  • Australia's James Magnussen winning a medal in Spain in 2013. The retired swimmer says he will compete in next year's Enhanced Games

    Full Story
    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – Full Story podcast

  • James Magnussen celebrating a win in swimming

    Science Weekly
    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

  • Young female primary school teacher working one on one with a schoolgirl watching her write at a table in a classroom, close up<br>RBNN6E Young female primary school teacher working one on one with a schoolgirl watching her write at a table in a classroom, close up

    Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds

  • Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times mass of sun

  • ‘This isn’t how good scientific debate happens’: academics on culture of fear in gender medicine research

  • Science Weekly
    The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won – podcast

  • Science Weekly
    Remembering physicist Peter Higgs – podcast

  • Gender medicine ‘built on shaky foundations’, Cass review finds

  • Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

  • Science Weekly
    The science of ‘weird shit’: why we believe in fate, ghosts and conspiracy theories

March 2024

  • CT scan of the head of a young woman who has multiple sclerosis

    Science Weekly
    The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS – podcast

    On 28 March it’s the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the most common viral infection in humans. The virus was first discovered in association with a rare type of cancer located in Africa, but is now understood to be implicated in 1% of cancers, as well as the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis. Ian Sample meets Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, to hear the story of this virus, and how it might help us prevent and treat cancer and other illnesses.
  • A person holding a pack of pills

    Hormone medication could increase risk of brain tumours, French study finds

    Patients taking certain progestogens as a contraceptive or for gynaecological conditions may be more likely to develop growths, researchers say

    • Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study

    • Bases, experiments, mining: the race to protect the surface of the moon

    • Scientists call for protection of moon sites that could advance astronomy

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