Intense: Find a quiet spot and expand your mind with these inspiring booksDavid Trood/Getty Images The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith This year hasn’t been a great one for the environment, so a book about the long history of environmental damage...
Haunted house attractions could provide an unexpected health benefitRobert Stainforth/Alamy They say laughter is the best medicine, but a bit of fear might be a strong contender. This is according to researchers who found that getting spooked in a haunted house...
The temperature is dropping, and rates of a whole host of respiratory illnesses are doing the opposite. Among them is so-called walking pneumonia, a relatively mild form of pneumonia that has been unusually common in young children this year.Pneumonia can...
November 27, 20245 min readChoosing Empathy Is Critical to DemocracyIf we lose sight of why empathy matters, both individual dignity and democracy sufferBy C. Daryl Cameron Denis Novikov/Getty ImagesIn the weeks before and after the U.S. presidential election, many of...
November 27, 20243 min readYour Friends Shape Your Microbiome—and So Do Their FriendsAnalysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whomBy Saima Sidik & Nature magazineFriends share more than just food...
A different missile to Oreshnik, the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, is test-fired from the Plesetsk launch pad in north-western Russia in March 2024Associated Press/Alamy Stock Photo On 21 November a new Russian weapon hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, with...
Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images In 1818, Mary Shelley invented a technology that has been used for both good and ill in the centuries since. It is called science fiction. You may not think a literary genre counts as technology, but sci-fi...
The payload of a Near Space Labs balloon parachuting back to the groundNear Space Labs Autonomous balloons high in Earth’s atmosphere are taking incredibly detailed photos of neighbourhoods and individual homes in 28 US states, and from January 2025, they...
Deep-sea coral reefs are at risk from acidificationHoward Chew / Alamy Stock Photo Ocean acidification is sinking into marine regions as deep as 1500 metres, posing new threats to organisms like sea butterflies, sea snails and cold-water corals. The ocean...
Bird flu has been spreading in wild animals for years but it’s now adapting to humansVuk Valcic//SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The threat of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus adapting to humans has been inching closer towards becoming a...
