Madeleine Finlay

Madeleine Finlay hears from Tim Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria, to find out why scientists once believed boozing could be good for us, and what the risks actually are

Phoebe Weston speaks to Dr Richard Fox, head of science for the charity Butterfly Conservation, and to Matthew Hayes who is part of the Banking on Butterflies project about what’s going on with butterflies and how we can all play a role in helping them survive extreme weather

Madeleine Finlay meets Dr Julia Rohrer, a personality psychologist at the University of Leipzig, to unpick the science behind birth order

Ian Sample speaks to Ivan Oransky, from Retraction Watch, and hears from blogger Sholto David, who made headlines this year when he spotted mistakes in research from a leading US cancer institute

Science correspondent and flat-coated retriever owner Nicola Davis visits Cambridge University to meet Dr Eleanor Raffan and Prof Giles Yeo to find out how understanding obesity in dogs could help treat the obesity crisis in humans

Ian Sample sits down with Chris French to explore why so many of us end up believing in what he terms ‘weird shit’, and what we can learn from understanding why we are drawn to mysterious and mystic phenomena

The arrest of Telegram’s founder and CEO in Paris last month has thrown the spotlight on the messaging app and its approach to content moderation. Madeleine Finlay hears from Russian affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer and technology journalist Alex Hern about how the case could influence how social media companies approach problematic content on their platforms

Ian Sample talks to Trudie Lang, professor of global health research and director of the global health network at the University of Oxford, to find out what we still need to learn in order to tackle and contain the new strain of mpox behind the latest outbreak

Environment editor Damian Carrington tells Madeleine Finlay about his recent trip to Greenland on board a ship with a group of intrepid scientists. They were on a mission to explore the maelstrom beneath Greenland’s glaciers, an area that has never been studied before, and were hoping to find answers to one of the world’s most pressing questions – how quickly will sea levels rise?

Study after study seems to suggest drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy could have all sorts of health benefits, leading some scientists to hail them a breakthrough that could transform many chronic diseases of ageing. Nicola Davis tells Madeleine Finlay what is known so far