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It’s been 100 years since a book written by Marie Stopes revolutionsed the way that people talked about sex.
A damning inquiry has revealed the extent of the abuse suffered by British children sent abroad between 1920 and 1970. But it skirts around Aboriginal cultural genocide.
The skies can tell us when there might be trouble ahead.
Crucifixion was more than just physical punishment, it was also a devastating emotional and psychological act of violence.
A study of 600,000 children has found links between achievement and depression.
Smoking cannabis has been linked with schizophrenia – and 94% seized in Britain in 2016 was of the high-potency variety.
Weight stigma at the doctors can be mentally and physically harmful.
New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey pushes back the date for the earliest settlement of the site by 200 years – and reopens debate on Glastonbury’s origin myths.
Traditional picket lines feel outdated now that work is no longer a place that you go, but a thing that you do.
The history of children’s books gives us very few really villainous female characters – and most of them are witches or evil queens.
The 1995 Tokyo sarin attack helped make Japanese criminal justice dramatically more punitive.
Bridges should have continuous health monitoring systems in place to detect damage that can lead to collapse.
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a call to reconsider whether interrogation techniques used in the 1970s against men interned in Northern Ireland amounted to torture.
It’s been reported that astronaut Scott Kelly no longer has the same DNA as his twin brother after spending a year in space.
Some of the biggest names in the bottled water industry were originally spa towns that wealthy Europeans escaped to during the industrial revolution.
Transition isn’t leaving, nor is it staying. And some key questions remain unanswered.
Education is not the only way to tackle social mobility, employers also have a key role to play.
New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.
We asked teenagers what they need to get, and stay, active.
We can’t eradicate TB without also addressing poverty.
It’s a breed of dog which deserves a better place in society.
It isn’t that we should worry about AI becoming more human. We should fear ourselves becoming more artificial.
A vivid and remarkable body of writing is emerging to highlight the human cost of the war in Syria.
The NHS funding formula is based on an unfair premise which is funnelling money away from the regions that need it most.