By Amnesty International
On 30 January, six Italian coastguard and custom officials will go on trial for failing to launch rescue operations which could have prevented a shipwreck that killed more than 90 people near the town of Cutro in southern Italy in February 2023. At least 94 people, including 34 children, drowned in Italian territorial waters near […] The post Italy: Cutro shipwreck trial begins after another deadly week in the Mediterranean appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Gordon Osinski, Professor in Earth and Planetary Science, Western University
Jeremy Hansen will be the first non-American to fly to the moon — and will make Canada only the second country in the world to send an astronaut into deep space.
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By Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
Reports of a growing US naval presence in the Gulf have prompted speculation that the US could be preparing for another Middle East war, this time with Iran.
The US president, Donald Trump, has warned of “serious consequences” if Iran does not comply with his demands to permanently halt uranium enrichment, curb its ballistic missile program and end support for regional proxy groups.
Yet, despite the familiar language…
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
A new mouse study suggests some cancers release signals that help the brain clear Alzheimer’s-linked proteins, offering clues to a long-standing medical mystery.
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By Mark Williams, Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
Jan Zalasiewicz, Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and travel with us easily. Some scientists have a word for this reshuffling of life: the Homogenocene.
Evidence for it is found in the world’s museums. Storerooms are full of animals that no longer walk among us, pickled in spirit-filled jars: coiled snakes, bloated fish, frogs, birds. Each extinct species marks the…
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By Simon Haslett, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Physical Geography, Bath Spa University; Swansea University
Four centuries on, scientists are still debating whether the catastrophic flood of 1607 was driven by a storm surge or a tsunami.
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By Judith Roberts, Lecturer in Psychology, Aberystwyth University
Mindfulness is usually taught through stillness and silence. But for some, full presence is easier to achieve in movement, and even in risk.
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By Stephan Blum, Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.
Long before Homer’s epics immortalised its fall, Troy was a place of everyday life. Potters shaped jars and bowls destined to travel far beyond the settlement itself, moving through wide horizons of exchange and connection.
Bronze tools rang in busy workshops. Traders called across the marketplace and children…
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By Andrew Scott, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Please can I ask how old is fire on earth, not tamed by people but since when has there been fire and flames on the planet.
Samuel, 5, London
You ask a very interesting question. For many years, scientists assumed that fire and humans were so connected that few of them gave any thought to what happened to fire before humans evolved.
Even now, after many years of research, you won’t find much…
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By Mehr Mumtaz, PhD Candidate in Sociology, The Ohio State University
In January 2025, Seema received an email from the International Organization for Migration saying that her flight from Pakistan to the United States, which she and her family were booked on after months of extensive interviewing and background checks by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, had been canceled.
“We had sold our TV and refrigerator,” her husband,…
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