In England and Wales perpetrators of one of the gravest violent crimes, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, are very unlikely to receive any punishment at all
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Ruth Itzhaki has spent more than 30 years researching whether certain common viruses play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s. But for years her research was greeted with hostility.
Researchers spoke to families of athletes who had suffered from traumatic brain injuries during their sporting careers.
The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
Just months after the end of the second world war, the longest running study of health over the human life course in the world began – and it’s still going.
New research shows the region’s arts organisations were a critical source of support for vulnerable people during lockdown
A podcast and long read series exploring new research into the brain and dementia.
From more accurate climate modelling to the prospect of truly creative computers, the brain’s use of noise has a lot to teach us.
The discovery of a photograph of my grandmother perched on a bicycle holding a rifle was the first of many revelations about her life.
A cultural collaboration with deafblind people led to the development of a high-tech device to help navigate their world post-lockdown
The caves now serve as important safe spaces in an area designated ‘Firing Zone 918’ by Israel, as residents describe a growing wave of forced evictions and building demolitions.
Our prospects of a better, fairer future are inextricably linked with the minerals and metals beneath our feet. Is it time to make peace with the industry that extracts them?
BirthStrike offers a salutary lesson about how core messages can be misconstrued and misunderstood when put through a high-profile media lens.
As an anthropologist, I have chronicled the digital nomad lifestyle for the past seven years. The reality is far less glamorous than you might imagine
With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
Amid the global threats posed by climate change, spiralling energy costs, insecure employment and widening inequality, the need to rethink our notion of progress is now an urgent priority.
DRC has the highest number of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers – yet no systematic research on the claims of their abandoned children has existed until now.
A double agent who operated for the CIA and the Dutch security service against the Stasi tells his story for the first time.
Pioneered by the Human Cell Atlas consortium, our understanding of the human body is about to be transformed – and with it, the way we treat and prevent disease
An Africa-based conservation expert explains why trophy hunting has not delivered for wildlife in most parts of Africa, and that local communities benefit next to nothing from its continued practice
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