Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns
These powerful ‘rivers in the sky’ provide a huge share of annual precipitation in many regions, including California. They ...
Los supervivientes japoneses de la bomba atómica reciben el Nobel de la Paz
El premio Nobel de la Paz 2024 ha sido concedido a Nihon Hidankyo, una organización japonesa creada por supervivientes de las ...
Climate emergencies threaten our collective security, but governments are flying blind into the storm
There are also important analytical flaws, such as inadequate consideration of cascading and interacting risks like ...
New rights for UK workers are unlikely to put enough money in the pockets of those who need it
Nothing is less dignified than struggling back to work after a serious illness, because of money worries. The new deal should ...
Stem cell therapy reverses type 1 diabetes in world first
It’s rare for medical research to be truly ‘groundbreaking’, but the case study from China showing that stem cell therapy can ...
Nobel peace prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group for its efforts to free the world of nuclear weapons
The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created by survivors of the ...
Tunisia’s young democracy flounders as its president wins a second term
Tunisia was the location of an uprising against corruption, poverty and political repression in 2011 that ousted longtime ...
New technologies could help destroy persistent ‘forever chemicals’
Scientists and engineers are developing new ways to destroy per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) efficiently and ...
Vatican synod is opening the door a bit wider for Catholic women − but they’ve been knocking for more than 100 years
Women’s formal involvement in bishops’ synods has grown slowly over the decades. Even when they were excluded, Catholic women ...
The rise and fall of Sue Gray
Sue Gray has resigned as the chief of staff to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. This resignation came alongside the drip drip ...
Why the Cimarons are one of the greatest British bands of all time – as documentary Harder Than the Rock shows
Before other well-known British bands such as Aswad, Steel Pulse, Matumbi, Black Slate and Capital Letters had exploded on ...
Ancient humans were so good at surviving the last ice age they didn’t have to migrate like other species – new study
Most animals retreated to small, warmer enclaves. But some, like humans, seemed to have stayed where they were.