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Maggie was faced with a tough choice in February 2025: quit her job at the US office of personnel management or be unceremoniously fired.Though she was…

Alicia Contreras was in Tunisia, working as the deputy country representative for Libya for USAID, when she received the news: she was fired. The Trump administration…

Our reporter Helene Cooper walks us through the high-stakes operation to rescue a downed U.S. airman in Iran.

Sex might seem an intimate act, but scientists have shed fresh light on how octopuses manage it at arm’s length.Male octopuses use a specialised arm called…

Vaping is likely to cause lung and oral cancer, researchers have found, as they urged regulators to act now rather than wait decades for a definitive…

Some things are easy to talk about; infertility is not one of them. I speak from experience – of miscarriage and unsuccessful rounds of IVF –…

Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page.For more than two millennia, mathematicians…

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page.Grab something circular, like a…

Illustration: Shimeng Jiang/The GuardianWhen Wendy Pfrenger’s children started high school in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, she had the choice to enroll them in abstinence-only or…

As a teenager, I loved reading my horoscope in gossip magazines. But even then my friends and I knew it was nonsense. For us, this was…