Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...
Mpox in the DRC: residents of the slum at the centre of Kinshasa’s epidemic have little chance of avoiding this major health crisis
Long known as a virus confined to rural areas, mpox has reached Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Microgravity in space may cause cancer − but on Earth, mimicking weightlessness could help researchers develop treatments
Cells function differently under low gravity conditions. Rather than send lab samples to space, researchers are developing ...
Seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression
Four photographs by celebrated artist Sally Mann were recently removed from the walls of an exhibition at the Modern Art ...
Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories. ‘We give previously faceless ...
UK government’s AI plan gives a glimpse of how it plans to regulate the technology
The UK government recently published its plan for using AI to boost growth and deliver services more efficiently. It also ...
Trump labels drug cartels as terrorist groups – what it means for Mexico and beyond
Donald Trump returned to the US presidency on January 20 with a flurry of executive orders. This included the designation of ...
Emotions change our perception of time – as demonstrated on The Traitors
When we experience extreme threats, flight or fight responses kick in, our heart rate increases and the insula, an area of ...
The Brutalist: an architect’s take on a film about one man’s journey to realise his visionary building
Brady Corbet’s epic is a hymn to one man’s tenacity and vision that explores the interconnected fates of the architect and ...
The Holocaust: how ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses
Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then ...
US Supreme Court is unabashedly liberal − in its writing style
While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more ...