Ian Sample is the science editor at the Guardian. He covers a wide range of topics including natural sciences, health and wellness, and climate policy, with a focus on areas such as biology, neuroscience, and ecology. Ian is featured in multiple publications including the Irish Examiner, Canada's National Observer, and Yahoo News UK.
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Ian Sample's articles primarily cover scientific topics, with a focus on citing data and providing expert commentary. He covers a wide range of scientific themes including animal behavior, climate change, artificial intelligence, genetics, space exploration, medical research and addiction.
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By: Ian Sample
We round up the winners at awards for achievements that ‘first make people laugh and then make them think’
By: Ian Sample
It's that time of year again: a select group of scientists have been summoned to a ceremony to receive coveted prizes, be showered in paper planes, and
By: Madeleine Finlay, Ian Sample, Ellie Bury, Joel Cox
Science editor Ian Sample and Madeleine Finlay chat through their favourite winners of the 2026 Ig Nobel prizes for science that makes you laugh and then think
By: Ian Sample, Dan Milmo
Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours
By: Ian Sample
What may be the earliest known evidence for human drug taking has been traced to ancient Indonesian foragers who sucked on mind-altering nuts as long as 25,000 years ago.
By: Madeleine Finlay, Joshan Chana, Joel Cox, Ellie Bury, Ian Sample
Scientists believe they may be a step closer to detecting dark matter for the first time. Science editor Ian Sample explains to Madeleine Finlay why, if confirmed, the finding could completely transform our understanding of the universe
By: Jacob Liebenberg, Madeleine Finlay, Ellie Bury, Ian Sample, Joshan Chana
For decades physicists have been puzzling over the enigma of dark matter. We think it makes up 85% of the matter in the universe, but the mysterious substance cannot be seen or detected, and we know about it mainly through observations of the gravitational effects it has on other things. But now scientists believe they may be a step closer to detecting it. Science editor Ian Sample explains to Madeleine Finlay why, if confirmed, the finding could completely transform our understanding of the universe. And Dr Samuel Erikson, senior research associate at the University of Bristol, and first author of the research paper, explains how the finding has been received in the physics community
By: Ian Sample
As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change
By: Ian Sample
It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field , OpenAI
By: Madeleine Finlay, Michael Safi, Ian Sample, Ellie Bury
In this episode of Science Weekly recorded in front of an audience at the London podcast festival, Ian Sample, Michael Safi and the Science Weekly co-host Madeleine Finlay explore the phenomenon labelled ‘AI psychosis’ and ask what it reveals about a technology now used by more than a billion people
