It’s the start of the rainy season in Sierra Leone, the west African country known for its beautiful beaches and tropical rainforests. The coming of the rains brings relief from the heat, but also ...

In aperture synthesis, the individual dishes move one step at a time along railway tracks, registering radio waves from the ...

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Ruth Padel has published five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is The Soho Leopard.

As Ernest Hemingway famously claimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry ...

Guatemala’s future is on the line, as its new president Bernardo Arévalo battles a corrupt political establishment ...

NHS midwife Piroska Cavell was in the middle of her night shift and caring for a woman in labour when she realised that she couldn’t move her mouth. Alone in a hospital room, she was physically unable ...

Blood transfusions save millions of lives every year, but they come with a critical caveat: compatibility. Using the incorrect blood type will result in immediate rejection, which can cause kidney ...

I didn’t understand Taylor Swift fans until I married a football supporter. The pop star’s intense fandom had confused me for quite a while. Her songs seemed bland and formulaic, her image wholesome, ...

The name-calling behaviour has only otherwise been observed in humans Dogs bark, cats meow. Birds chirp and dolphins squeal. In between the vast array of sounds made by animals of all shapes and sizes ...