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...
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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...
IQ Tests: Are Humans Getting Smarter?
From the algorithms that make our social media accounts function to the sleep-tracking technology in our smartwatches, the world has never seemed so technologically advanced and developed. This is...
Can’t Face Running? Have A Hot Bath Or A Sauna – Research Shows...
I study the effects of exercise on the body. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that when I’m not in the lab, I like to keep active by hitting the gym or going for a run. But for many people, it’s much...
How Palm Oil Became The World’s Most Hated, Most Used Fat Source
Palm oil is everywhere today: in food, soap, lipstick, even newspaper ink. It’s been called the world’s most hated crop because of its association with deforestation in Southeast Asia...
How Humans Interact With The Changing Environment Is Affecting...
Some of the world’s most notorious infections – including Lyme disease, rabies, and Ebola come from zoonotic diseases. These illnesses are caused by pathogens (bacteria, viruses...
IQ Tests Can’t Measure It, But ‘Cognitive Flexibility’ Is Key To...
IQ is often hailed as a crucial driver of success, particularly in fields such as science, innovation and technology. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous...
Fifty-Nine Labs Around World Handle The Deadliest Pathogens –...
Did the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 result from high-risk research gone wrong? Regardless of the answer, the risk of future pandemics originating from research with dangerous pathogens is real. The focal...
COVID-19 Made Deep-Sea Mining More Tempting For Some Pacific...
While most Pacific islands have escaped the worst of COVID-19, a cornerstone of their economies, tourism, has taken a big hit. By June 2020, visitor arrivals in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu...
Blackfish: How Captive Killer Whale Documentary Ended SeaWorld’s...
After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, the documentary Blackfish reached nearly 21 million viewers within its first month of airing on CNN. The film tells the bleak story...
Is 150 Years Really The Limit Of Human Lifespan?
While most of us can expect to live to around 80, some people defy expectations and live to be over 100. In places such as Okinawa, Japan and Sardinia, Italy, there are many centenarians. The oldest...
How Sewage Plants And Data Centres Could Help Heat One In Five...
Gas boilers heat around 85% of homes in the UK, but their installation in new homes is to be banned from 2025. While heating produces over a third of the country’s CO₂ emissions, there are only two...
Turkish Spies Are Abducting Erdogan’s Political Opponents Abroad
Emboldened by a lack of repercussions from NATO and the EU, Turkish President Erdogan’s regime is kidnapping dissidents. On 1 June, Orhan Inandi, a Turkish-Kyrgyz national was declared missing in the...