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How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast

Par :Presented by Ian Sample · produced by Madeleine Finlay · sound design by Joel Cox · the executive producer was Ellie Bury

6 mai 2025 à 06:00

Direct to consumer tests that claim to tell us our biological – as opposed to chronological – age are getting a lot of attention, but what can they really tell us about our health? Science editor Ian Sample talks to Dr Brian H Chen, an epidemiologist at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, who has conducted research into a variety of these tests called epigenetic clocks. He explains what exactly they are measuring and whether, once we have the results, there are any evidence-based strategies we can adopt to lower our biological age

Real age versus biological age: the startups revealing how old we really are

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Why did Just Stop Oil just stop? – podcast

The Guardian

Par :Presented by Madeleine Finlay with Damien Gayle, produced by Rachel Porter and Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Joel Cox · the executive producer is Ellie Bury

29 avril 2025 à 06:00

Just Stop Oil, the climate activism group behind motorway blockades, petrol station disruption and tomato soup attacks on major artworks, has disbanded after staging a final action in London this weekend. To find out why the group has decided to hang up the famous orange high-vis, Madeleine Finlay hears from our environment correspondent Damien Gayle who has been covering Just Stop Oil since its inception. He explains how policy wins and policing crackdowns combined to bring the movement to a close, and what the future of climate activism could look like in its wake

What next for climate activism now Just Stop Oil is ‘hanging up the hi-vis’?

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