Sometimes death threats do come true
The awful memories haunt the survivors of the former school near Newton Abbot
Pilita Clark: It hard not to be suspicious about how information from ‘digital wearables’ will be used
Why Hokusai’s Great Wave – created amid Japanese isolation – became a resounding artistic and commercial success worldwide
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In 1978, Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins visited Northern Ireland to document the lives of Catholic communities from the inside: ‘I was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so’
Some "even went so far as to say, 'Please, please, please don't let anybody know that I got this vaccine," Priscilla Frase, MD, said.
Fulfilling a prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, researchers report the first-ever recordings of X-ray emissions from the far side of a black hole.
Wildfires. Drought. Monsoons. Sewage spills. A resurgent virus. The summer season we thought we knew has become something ominous.
In Britain, most pet cats are free to roam, but where do they go and what do they get up to? We fitted six cats with GPS trackers and found out
Random thoughts on life, work, money, and habits.
The UK has a long history of picking pointless fights with Brussels.
Katrina Karkazis, a professor of sexuality, women’s and gender studies, specialising in ‘sex testing’ and sport regulations speaks to Shivani Dave about the rules that ban female athletes with...
I’ve been a journalist for more than 60 years. So after doctors delivered the news, I sat down to do what came naturally, if painfully: Write this story.
Old data from NASA's Hubble Telescope revealed evidence of water vapor in Ganymede's atmosphere.
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China's new digital currency may sound scary. But it’s private payment companies, not individual users, who should worry most about their data being snatched by the state.
Hucksters claim that drinking a few drops of hydrogen peroxide diluted in a glass of water will cure almost anything. How do they get away with it?
The Cordouan beacon is the last to be inhabited in France and only the second, after the Tower of Hercules at La Coruña in Spain, to be added to Unesco’s World Heritage list. Cordouan was built at...
A handful of "super emitters" are responsible for the vast majority of all emissions in the energy sector.
Mounting research shows that going for a swim can preserve memories, reduce mood disorders and increase mental acuity in all age groups.
Once common around Britain, carnivorous plants have suffered a dramatic decline over the last century. However, a young ecologist is on a mission to bring these dramatic species back.
The industry that fights bed bugs is growing, but the only real winners are the pests themselves.
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Infographic design first appeared at the Olympics in 1948, when the games were last in London
Hale faces a sentencing hearing on Tuesday following his guilty plea in March on charges of sharing classified information about the US military’s drone killing program with journalists.
A Halifax scuba diver has found something that could shed a little new light on one aspect of a dark chapter in Nova Scotian history.
Woman who recruited members during the club’s 80s heyday reveals the true extent of members’ destructive behaviour
Gene editing for performance enhancement may not be the Tokyo cheat, but we asked the experts how far off it might be.
Lord Clarke is the first senior health minister from the 1980s to testify on the NHS scandal.
Map of the Internet is a comprehensive artistic visualization of the Internet as of 2021. It includes several thousand of some of the most popular websites, represented as distinct "countries",...
Residents in the western German city have been asked to stay inside and keep their windows and doors closed. Operators of the chemical plant said it wasn't clear what caused the explosion.
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