Oneinchpunch / Shutterstock
In an effort to bring the Olympics to a wider and younger audience, breaking is the latest “sport” to make its debut at Paris 2024. But how will it work as a scored sport?
PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
Kourtney Kardashian Barker says she “pounds breast milk” to stop herself feeling sick – but are there really any proven health benefits for adult consumption of human milk?
Dragon images/Shutterstock
It is difficult to argue that online comments can amount to criminal offences that threaten public order.
Alexey Kotelnikov/Alamy Stock Photo
The link between ejaculation and prostate cancer explained.
The damage done: the aftermath of an airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, November 2023.
EPA-EFE/Mohammed Saber
AI is enabling a huge number of decisions about who to target. They are not always the right ones.
Toby Melville/PA images
UN human rights experts have warned that airlines transporting people to Rwanda could be complicit in human rights abuses.
Most smokers start in their teens.
Lana Veshta/ Shutterstock
Smoking is the single greatest cause of ill health and death globally.
Exotic shorthair cats are popular in the US but they struggle with health problems.
Julia Senkevich/Shutterstock
The genetic mutations responsible for the unusual physical features in animals can also cause great harm.
Microbes and algae on the seabed produce huge amounts of oxygen that often form bubbles.
Marco Fusi
Marine species respond to ocean deoxygenation in different ways depending on where in the ocean they live.
Around ten million people in the UK experience migraines.
Tunatura/ Shutterstock
In one trial, atogepant was shown to reduce the number of migraine days a person had each month by 30%.
The body of socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is discovered on the outskirts of Rome on August 16 1924, two months after his disappearance.
Archivio GBB/Alamy
One hundred years after the Italian opposition leader’s murder, documents long locked away at the London School of Economics could shed new light on Mussolini’s involvement in his death
dodotone/Shutterstock
Dungeons and Dragons may soon be used be psychotherapists.
andrejs polivanovs / shutterstock
Warmer water holds less oxygen, while warmer fish need more oxygen.
Andrew Michael/Alamy Stock Photo
Dozens of people in Argentina are critically ill with ‘atypical’ pneumonia. But this is unlikely to be another pandemic looming.
Master1305/Shutterstock
In psychology it’s known as the gender-equality paradox.
OlegD/Shutterstock
There is not much consensus on what the root causes of migration actually are, and little evidence to show that addressing them actually reduces migration.
There is no comprehensive system for recording hate graffiti in the UK.
Stephen Barnes/Social Issues/Alamy
The UK lacks a comprehensive system for recording hateful graffiti and imagery, something which researchers argue must change.
George Gershwin composed Rhapsody in Blue in three weeks.
Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy
With his highly original melodic gift, Gershwin blended jazz and classical elements to create the iconic and enduring Rhapsody in Blue.
Stonehenge during winter solstice sunset
Chuta Kooanantkul/Shutterstock
The monument’s ancient connection to the skies may run even deeper than we realised.
Lori and George Schappell in Times Square, greeting fans.
Associated Press/Alamy Stock Photo
World’s oldest living conjoined twins – Lori and George Schappell – have died aged 62.