Greg Noone

Greg Noone

Greg is a UK-based freelance journalist, with bylines in The Atlantic, Outside, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, The Verge, the New Statesman, New York magazine, NK News and others. He's written about everything from AI transcriptionists and artists, to North Korea’s elusive tigers and how the pandemic has made us listen more closely to the natural world. He's also the former editor of Tech Monitor.

Recent articles by Greg Noone
flying weaponised drone.

9 of the world’s weirdest-ever military inventions

From vomit guns to nuclear chickens, these are some truly bizarre ideas that never quite took off
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woman holding glp1 pen

We may finally know how to stop taking GLP-1s without regaining weight

What it actually takes to quit weight-loss drugs without undoing all the progress
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These terrifying robots could be the future of war

Meet the unmanned drones, remote-controlled ground vehicles and four-legged robots revolutionising modern warfare
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Man holding a banana near his crotch

What your penis is trying to tell you about your health

It's more than a reproductive organ – it's a barometer for the rest of your body
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Entire globe in night sky

You’ll never guess which country is leading the world on sustainability

An analysis of 177 countries’ green credentials put the US in 19th place and the UK in third
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Group of elephants with a mountain in the background

We may finally know how Hannibal got his elephants across the Alps

Long thought lost to history, two biologists claim to have found the most likely route taken through the mountains by the military genius
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Experts spent 30 years studying penguin poop from space – and found something really weird

Researchers used satellite imagery to chart how the guano changed colour over three decades
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A goblin shark

One of the world's rarest (and strangest) sharks has been filmed alive for the first time

Known for its massive retractable jaw, the spooky footage shows the goblin shark lurking deep in the Pacific Ocean
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Luis Diaz #7 of Colombia scores his team's second goal during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group K match between Uzbekistan and Colombia at Mexico City Stadium on June 17, 2026 in Mexico City

Here’s who’ll win the World Cup, according to science 

Statisticians from across Europe teamed up to train a competition-predicting, machine learning algorithm
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