A clinic in London, run by a former maker of artisanal ice cream, is treating patients with stage 4 cancer using a method that involves sealing them, naked from the neck down, in a plastic bag while gassing them with the oxidizing industrial bleach chlorine dioxide—a treatment that even the person administering it admits is…
The document, signed separately by US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, sets out a 60-day framework for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme but it also confirms an immediate halt to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, mutual respect for sovereignty, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of…
A fossil baby embolomere from Mazon Creek, Illinois Arjan Mann A set of exquisitely preserved 300-million-year-old fossils suggests that early four-limbed vertebrates did not undergo a metamorphosis between their juvenile and adult stages, challenging conventional ideas about the evolution of life on land. “We have for a very long time assumed that these animals were…
The fishing port of Kesennuma, Japan, in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake in 2011 Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Around 15 minutes after the magnitude-9 Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011, almost the whole of Japan jumped half a centimetre to the east. This lurch resulted from an immensely powerful seismic wave…
Mass gun attacks were extremely rare in Serbia and school shootings unheard of, when the Belgrade attack took place on 3 May 2023. The boy had taken two handguns from his father’s safe, put them in his backpack and gone to school, opening fire in the hall and then a classroom.
The US, and by extension Israel, have suffered a strategic defeat. The regime in Tehran faced its worst nightmare: a joint military operation to cripple or destroy it by the US, the world’s strongest power, and Israel, the Middle East’s superpower. The regime has not just survived. It has been empowered.
How does Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World hold up today? Once every few months or so, some passage or another from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark goes viral online for its seemingly prescient descriptions of a world in which critical thought and skepticism are waning, leaving behind a…
What might Earth look like in the far future? Vimal-S/Unsplash The sun is getting brighter and expanding as it ages, and will one day begin to cook our planet before engulfing it altogether – but complex life may be able to hold on in this hellish Earth scenario for much longer than we previously thought.…
2,500 passes since Spain’s last World Cup goal – key stats as Cape Verde earn point Veteran goalkeeper Vozinha stars and Spain reach 2,500 passes since their last World Cup goal – the key stats as debutants Cape Verde secure a memorable point in Atlanta. 4 days ago
Bobi Wine, a Ugandan opposition politician who fled the country fearing for his life after contesting the January presidential election, alleged that Lukwago had been arrested on Kainerugaba’s orders as he was preparing to serve a court summons on the military chief.