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The creation of global mushroom maps is unearthing new species and teaching us how they support Earth’s ecosystem ...
Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt ...
As big questions go, you can’t get much bigger than “What is the meaning of life?” It is a question that is often modified ...
The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About? (Oxford University Press) by Nick Spencer and Hannah ...
Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, in principle they can use this information to figure out the shape of the ...
Mansour Omari smuggled out the names of Assad regime prisoners scribbled onto scraps of cloth. Portrait by Richard Ansett Mansour Omari is a Syrian human rights defender, journalist and torture ...
But Trump likes people who like him, and these people liked him. By the fall of 2015, White-Cain was arranging meetings between the would-be president and charismatic religious leaders. These were ...
Hillsong United perform in California. Credit: Justin Higuchi /CC 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford University Press) by ...
As the Church pushes for harsher drug laws in Italy, a series of cases suggest that the priesthood is hiding a problem of its own "If you knew the right people, you would know it’s very common,” wrote ...
Machine learning is being used to understand why some people age quicker than others There is huge variation in how we age. While some 70-year-olds still run marathons, others are living with multiple ...
Adults play on water slide set up in Bristol, May 2014. Credit: Alamy It’s late summer and the afternoon sun is beating off Shoreditch’s sheer glass facades and gum-littered pavements. My colleagues ...
Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...