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Seven Dials refreshes Christie for our times, and it does it admirably.
Survey data shows Ghanaians trust hospitals and want to help – but poor coordination means blood doesn’t reach patients fast enough.
Inspired by the behaviour of flocks of birds, swarm intelligence is being used in drones to tackle the growing threat of wildfires.
Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they engage with staff and...
The Islamic Republic appears to have survived another existential crisis. Scott Lucas addresses the key issues and considers the future for Iran.
Publicly bombarding women with these images exerts control over how they present themselves online.
Science fiction imagines wormholes as shortcuts through spacetime. But the original idea suggests they could be something far stranger.
For years, the narrative surrounding teenagers’ use of digital technology has been one of alarm. Time spent scrolling through TikTok or playing...
Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against...
When you spot false or misleading information online, or in a family group chat, how do you respond? For many people, their first impulse is to...
Heated Rivalry, the HBO TV adaptation of the second book in Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series, rounded out 2025 as a surprise, word-of-mouth...
For many years, I lived in the Indian city of Chennai where the summer temperatures can reach up to 44°C. With a population of 4.5 million, this...
Progress towards achieving Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza is stalling. Israeli strikes across the territory on January 9 killed 13...
Huntington’s disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope. HD is a progressive, hereditary brain...
Governments across the world want AI to do more of the heavy lifting when it comes to public services. The plan is apparently to make make things...
Few long-running horror franchises manage to feel both expansive and intimate. The Bone Temple, the second film in a projected trilogy revisiting...
Urology departments in England and Wales have reported seeing an increase in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds being admitted for bladder...
The UK government has just announced the results of its biggest-ever auction for new offshore wind projects. By doubling the budget at the eleventh...
The wellbeing benefits of nature are often linked to forests or habitats that support diverse pollinators. Spending time in green spaces reduces...
The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of them on cave walls and...
Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed “web 2.0”. The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been...
UK inflation may be easing, but many households still find their weekly shop getting more expensive. One key reason is something not captured in...
We were standing by a large white board in one of the prison’s educational areas, debriefing how our study on hope had gone when the man slipped...
Those hoping to lose weight this year might be tempted to try to a diet challenge in the hopes of kick-starting their weight loss. But while we...
Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us,...
The global outcry over the sexualisation and nudification of photographs – including of children – by Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s...
Donald Trump is weighing military action in Iran over the state’s crackdown on protesters. Reports suggest that more than 600 people have been...
When indoor air pollution makes the news in western countries, it often feels like a local issue. One week it focuses on wood-burning stoves....
Brazil’s jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro was recently reported to have undergone three medical treatments to stop a bout of persistent...
Autistic people are so rarely depicted in media and entertainment, it’s no wonder most people don’t really understand much about the neurotype. So...
Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its...
AI is already doing a pretty good job at taking on some of the world’s workload. It has produced academic papers, enhanced space exploration and...
Diversity among students and researchers is a common goal across academia. This has been driven by a desire to increase opportunities for the...
US president Donald Trump’s attacks on the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, are yet another signal of a new era of economic...
What happens when learning English stops being a bridge into society and starts to feel like a test of belonging you can fail? That is the question...
Russia’s war in my home country Ukraine has caused environmental damage on a vast scale. Roughly 2.4 million hectares of agricultural land – an...
When Hurricane Delta hit Mexico’s Caribbean coast in 2020, insurance payouts were released within days – not to rebuild hotels or roads, but to...
Iranians have shown a willingness to pay a devastating price for political change, as protest has consistently been met by the Islamic Republic...
Solar power has a dark side: panels are still built to be thrown away, and we risk creating a mountain of waste that locks away valuable minerals....
Thomas Hardy’s final novel, Jude the Obscure (1895), was ahead of its time in more ways that one. Upon its publication, it provoked controversy...
Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear with a knife during a psychotic episode. Ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky developed schizophrenia and spent the...
Lack of time is often the main reason people don’t exercise regularly. But a type of interval workout recently popularised by actress Jessica Biel...
Like many of us, George Orwell saw January as a month to be endured rather than enjoyed. You can picture him steeling himself against its cold,...
The Cuban capital of Havana, where we are currently on a research trip, woke to an unfamiliar silence on January 5. As we drove through the city,...
Even in winter, when long dark nights can amplify feelings of loneliness, spending time with nature may elicit awe and wonder that brings important...
Inside the body, a 24-hour rhythm, known as the circadian rhythm, quietly coordinates when we sleep, wake, eat and recover. This internal timing...
Bob Weir, co-founder of the Grateful Dead, has died aged 78. His family announced the death on Instagram on Saturday, telling fans that he “...
The US is sabre-rattling over Greenland once again. The vast island’s natural resources are back on the agenda, a year after then-US national...
At its peak in the 1990s and 2000s, Manchester United was the reference point in professional club football around the globe. It set the commercial...
Driving is the one activity carried out by three-quarters of adults in England which has a risk of killing or being killed. But society seems to...
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