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Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask. By Jacob Mikanowski. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player

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  From the archive: ‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’…

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  ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s li…

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  ‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in poli…

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  From the archive: The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the r…

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  Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way

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  Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias

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  From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the sha…

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  Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks an…

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  How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster

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  From the archive: Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing h…

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  ‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big

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  Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educat…

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  From the archive: Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous c…

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  Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his…

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  As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their b…