It’s safe to say that UFOs, now branded UAPs, are back. In recent years, concerns have grown that supposed physics-defying craft are penetrating US airspace. This could represent a technological...
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If Control Measures Are Stopping Flu In Its Tracks, Why Aren’t...
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, other respiratory illnesses have been unusually quiet this year. Fears of a dangerous influenza and COVID-19 “syndemic” have not come to pass as flu cases reached some...
When Did Humans Start Experimenting With Alcohol And Drugs?
Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms, and breed plants and animals. But humans don’t just reshape our external world – we engineer our internal worlds, and...
Commodity Trading: The Shadowy Industry Destroying The Planet
Commodity trading firms are among the most important corporations in global capitalism, yet most people have never heard of them. As intermediaries between suppliers and buyers of primary and...
What’s Happening In Haiti?
In the days since president Jovenel Moïse’s assassination last week, Haiti’s situation has become increasingly uncertain. Questions remain over the tragic incident, as a power struggle plays itself...
COVID: Should You Ditch Your Mask Once Restrictions Are Lifted...
Most COVID-19 legal restrictions in England end on July 19. To celebrate, will you punch a stranger in the face? Probably not. And you certainly shouldn’t. Will you wear a mask on the bus after...
Fish Hooked On Meth – The Consequences Of Freshwater Pollution
Around 269 million people worldwide use drugs each year. Often forgotten in this story is a problem of basic biology. What goes in must come out. Sewers are inundated with drugs that are excreted...
What Happens To The Plastic You Recycle? Researchers Lift The Lid
The secretive way in which plastic recycling is handled in the UK carries the potential for the next big scandal. While the government’s statutory guidance is supposed to clarify who is...
What Happens When Black Holes Collide With The Most Dense Stars...
For the first time, a faint signal caused by the merging of two almost equally mysterious objects – black holes and a neutron stars – has been recorded on Earth. On January 5 2020, when the world was...
South Africa In Flames: Spontaneous Outbreak Or Insurrection?
South Africans spent most of mid-July glued to their news outlets, from established media outlets to TikTok, from streaming news to old-fashioned printed words, to see just one thing: would Jacob...
Insect Population Collapse: New Evidence Links It To Dams
Insects are the most numerous group of animals on the planet. There are an estimated 5.5 million species, 80% of which remain to be discovered. Yet insects are experiencing steep...
Modern Slavery: How Consumers Can Make A Difference
Few people want to buy products that involve the exploitation or enslavement of the workers who make them – but that’s exactly what most of us do on a daily basis. Estimates reveal that there are 40...
Jacob Zuma Isn’t A Man With A Cause. Just A Wily Politician...
South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruling to imprison the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, was unprecedented. But it wasn’t unexpected. The author of the majority judgment, Justice Sisi...
Amsterdam Is Laying Down A Model For What Tourism Should Look...
When COVID hit the Netherlands in 2020, Amsterdam emptied of visitors overnight. Long-term residents, inured to the permanent noise and litter and tourists peeing in the streets, welcomed the...
What The Discovery Of A Shackled Skeleton In A Ditch Reveals...
A body found buried in a ditch by construction workers in the village of Great Casterton, in the East Midlands of England, has shed new light on Roman slavery in Britain. A new analysis of the...
COVID-19: Kids Are Using Soft Drinks To Fake Positive Tests –...
Children are always going to find cunning ways to bunk off school, and the latest trick is to fake a positive COVID-19 lateral flow test (LFT) using soft drinks. So how are fruit juices, cola and...
What Would Happen To The Climate If We Reforested The Entire...
What would happen if every single patch of farmland in the tropics, from Brazil through Congo, India and Indonesia, was abandoned overnight and left to turn back into forests? That’s the question we...
Sweden’s Failed COVID Strategy Leaves The Country Deeply Divided
The Swedish COVID model became a symbol for anti-lockdown and no-mask movements across the world. But it is no longer a source of consensus at home Sweden, a bastion of welfare and one of the...
Afghans Left To Pick Up The Pieces Of The West’s Failed War
As the Taliban rapidly expand in the shadow of US and NATO allies’ retreat, has anyone considered the impact on innocent civilians? Military leaders in the United States and Britain, as well as...
Homo Longi: Extinct Human Species That May Replace Neanderthals...
In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square eye sockets, thick brow...