Riccardo Mayer/Shutterstock.com
Superbugs spread through the environment – and it needs urgent attention.
Charles Dickens in his study at Gad’s Hill Place in Kent, where he died in 1870.
Charles Dickens Museum
PODCAST: An audio version of an in depth article on what newly discovered documents reveal about the burial of Charles Dickens, 150 years after his death.
The Triumph of Death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562.
A medieval historian and business studies expert discuss how pandemics past and present impact on big business.
Erik Mandre/Shutterstock.com
A decade of no grazing has demonstrated positive effects on the richness of bird species.
Shutterstock/Teechai
More than 160 people across the UK have been keeping lockdown diaries as part of a new research project charting the pandemic.
ZGPhotography/Shutterstock.com
London is an alpha city – home to 100 billionaires. But does wealth bring social costs?
Shutterstock/FabioBerti
A lot depends on China and India sharing the products of their pharmacuetical manufacturing with the rest of the world.
Alone or lonely?
Photo by Max Duzij on Unsplash
An audio version of an in depth article on the history of solitude.
Cholera would often turn its victims’ skin a bluish grey.
Wellcome Collection
There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
Going underground: heading into an Atlas Shelter in Dallas, Texas.
Bradley Garrett
To ‘preppers’ getting ready for a global cataclysm, the COVID-19 pandemic is a mere ‘mid-level’ event.
Daryan Shamkhali/Unsplash
We can lock in these changes to build sustainable cities out of the coronavirus crisis – here’s how.
A Royal Air Force De Havilland MosquitoI in flight on September 30 1944.
wikimedia/ww2incolor
The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
Gary He/EPA-EFE
The airline industry has faced many crises before. But these pale in comparison to the economic hit that airlines are currently facing.
Thomas Peham/Unsplash
Most people in the West are used to some form of solitude from time to time. But this is a fairly new normal.
Yi Xin/EPA-EFE
We could use this crisis to rebuild, produce something better and more humane. But we may slide into something worse.
Gettyimages
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
MarcoVector/Shutterstock
Behind every government announcement, there is an army of epidemiologists predicting how the virus will spread, and how to beat it.
Piyal Adhikary/EPA
There are no criminal provisions around slavery in 49% of world nations, groundbreaking new legal research finds.
Dickens After Death, John Everett Millais, June 10 1870.
Charles Dickens Museum
How two ambitious men put their own interests ahead of the great writer and his family in an act of institutionally-sanctioned bodysnatching.
Arindambanerjee/Shutterstock.com
The voices of young victims in Haiti can now be heard for the first time thanks to a groundbreaking new research project.