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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
We'll never be able to visit the plasma at the edge of a black hole – but scientists managed to recreate it in a lab In school, we learn that there are three basic states of matter: solid, liquid and ...
A street in Kyiv, Ukraine before the war. Credit: Alamy Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War With Russia (Yale University Press) by Adrian Karatnycky In 1992, a year after the collapse ...