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Anti-ageing skincare testing

Humans

Skincare science is frivolous and warrants attack, right? Wrong

It won't save the world and is misused in adverts but skincare science isn’t nonsense. So why is resurgent interest in it under fire, wonders Lara Williams

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Quantum computing research

Physics

Is the quantum computer revolution really just five years away?

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The EMA building

Health

Fears of Brexit chaos for medicines agency should worry us all

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Scott Pruitt, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency

Earth

The US agency that guards the environment is going to be hobbled

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Shark's open mouth

Life

Shark-free world? That's a wish that would come back to bite us

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A butcher's selling halal meat

Humans

It's time to label all meat as stunned or unstunned at slaughter

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loaves of bread

Health

Time for the UK to stop dithering and add folic acid to bread

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a cloned monkey

Life

First monkeys, and then us? Human cloning must stay off limits

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Earth from space

Earth

Our best way to geoengineer the climate may well trash Earth

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Person with Instagram bag

Humans

We've stopped trusting social media – and that's a good thing

I'm one of the growing number of users cynical about social networks such as Facebook. But there are upsides to all this digital doubt, says Lara Williams

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Earth

Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now

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Humans

Trump, this 'shithole' continent pioneered heart swaps and more

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Health

Johann Hari doesn't know depression's real causes – no one does

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Earth

Tiny individual decisions really could help avert climate chaos

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