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Close-up photograph of a girl with chickenpox measles on her neck and face

Child dies from complications of measles years after infection – SSPE explained

September 16, 2025

The government wants local authorities to embrace AI – here’s one way it could work in practice

July 25, 2025

US approves twice-yearly injection for HIV prevention – what you need to know about lenacapavir

July 1, 2025

Ten years after the Modern Slavery Act, why has this ‘world-leading’ legislation had so little impact?

March 27, 2025

An anti AfD protest with people carrying banners in Germany

How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe

March 7, 2025

A photo of a drainage ditch which runs through a field in rural Somerset. The Bristol Channel headland of Brean Down can be seen in the background.

Ditches and canals are a big, yet overlooked, source of greenhouse gas emissions – new study

A yellow car with 007 written on it

James Bond is now controlled by Amazon – the franchise’s history holds clues to the future of 007

February 24, 2025

A man standing at the edge of a wooden pier

Cottontail review: how a man’s journey through grief mirrors our search for peace – by an expert in death and grieving

February 19, 2025

A photo of a judge banging his hammer

Lucy Letby case: the problems with expert evidence

February 7, 2025

An iron age hut

Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain

January 24, 2025