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The accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 generated the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. The impact of the acute ...

By Naomi Braithwaite Throughout history, women have faced pressure to have certain body shapes – often leading them to use extreme methods to achieve them. So you’d think with a ...

By Lana Haworth Vladimir Putin’s edict announcing the call-up of thousands of reservists for his so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine appears to have caused widespread panic and protests ...

By Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki A young woman’s death in custody in Iran on September 16 has sparked nationwide protests. Mahsa Amini’s fatal injuries resulted from an ...

By Cynthia Sear and Andrew Dawson As we have seen from coverage of The Queue – capitalised and thus now, apparently, a proper noun – the English are proud of their queuing ...

Anne Bailey, University of Oxford On Friday, September 16 2022, the day the queue to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state in Westminster Hall first reached its ten-mile capacity and had ...

By Leonie Heilbronn Biochemist and author of the Glucose Revolution Jessie Inchauspé says tweaking your diet can change your life. Among her recommendations in the mainstream media and on Instagram, ...

By Sharon Thompson In 1938, a group of feminist agitators came together in London to tackle what they saw as the most pressing issue of their time: inequality in marriage. For ...

By Boróka Bó For many young people, retirement is a blip on the radar, if not a total unknown. This is particularly true during our cost of living crisis, ...

By Emma Beckett Coffee – one bean with many possibilities. A big choice is how to brew it: espresso, filter, plunger, percolator, instant and more. Each method has unique equipment, timing, ...

By Belinda Lunnay, Kristen Foley and Paul Ward Many of us enjoy a drink at the end of a stressful day. But for some, this is less of a discretionary ...

By DAVID BURTON If you felt the world stop turning for a moment in July, it’s because Beyoncé dropped her new album, Renaissance. Rolling Stone has described her as ...

By Madeleine Goumas On a summer’s day at the beach, the sound of seagulls is part of the ambience. But what about when they’re in the middle of ...

By Noorin Khamisani Designer Issey Miyake died last week aged 84 leaving an indelible mark on the fashion world. He was celebrated for clothing that responded to the body in movement ...

By Philippa Martyr It’s hard to measure the impact of any one drug on world history. But here are five drugs we can safely say made a huge difference ...

By Parveen Akhtar In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of ...

By Hiroko Oe At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers feared that Christianity – which had recently been introduced to the southern parts of the country by European missionaries – ...

By Michele Groppi The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were ...

Why this particle could unlock new physics beyond the standard model By Martin Bauer and Stephen Jones Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps ...

By Dorian Llywelyn Ever since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, analysts picking apart Vladimir Putin’s motives and messaging about the war have looked to religion for ...

By Neil Rusch & Sarah Wurz Archaeologists spend a lot of time examining the remains of distant pasts, which includes the study of rock paintings. This is largely visual work – ...

By Stefan Wolff Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil – the first major war in Europe in three decades, the highest inflation rates in decades and a rapidly worsening global food ...

Is time travel real, or just science fiction asks Jo Adetunji At the beginning of the new Disney Pixar film, Lightyear, Buzz Lightyear gets stranded on a dangerous faraway planet ...

By Jo Adetunji The accelerating loss of other species around the globe is so extensive that many experts now refer to it as the sixth mass extinction. It’s driven ...