Holiday travel planning: reasons to try public transport or cycling when you get to your destination
As tourists prepare to pack their suitcases for a summer trip, decisions about how to be a green holidaymaker increasingly involve how to move around the resort or city, as well as how to get there. Walking and cycling are still regarded as the most sustainable ways to explore holiday destinations. They reduce emissions, improve […]
Why ibuprofen is better than paracetamol for period pain
Ibuprofen is shown to be more effective at reducing period pain. fizkes/ Shutterstock For something that affects millions every month, period pain remains surprisingly poorly treated. A recent analysis of supermarket transaction data from over three million shoppers found that paracetamol is the most purchased painkiller for menstrual cramps – despite being a less effective […]
Heat, humidity and housing: why British heatwaves hit differently
Every time the UK experiences a heatwave, many ask the same question: why does the heat in Britain feel so unbearable when people seem to cope with it in Spain, Greece, or India? Humidity is part of the answer. But Britain’s housing, long summer days, and lack of experience with extreme heat also make hot […]
The youth jobs crisis fuelling India’s Cockroach Janta Party protests
A new youth protest movement in India that started as online satire is now staging an ongoing sit-in in New Delhi calling for the resignation of India’s education minister. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) was launched in late May by Abhijeet Dipke, a graduate of Boston University, in response to alleged comments by India’s chief […]
If Europe wants to ‘go it alone’ on security, countries need to learn to sing from the same songsheet
The G7 summit at Evian from June 15 to 17 is most revealing not for what was agreed, but for what was exposed about the state of play among Europeans, and their relationship with the US. For all the choreography and displays of unity, the summit was, in large part, theatre. It was an attempt […]
Cracks in the International Space Station are causing air leaks – how much longer can it remain habitable?
The International Space Station has been continuously occupied since November 2000. Nasa On June 5, 2026, Nasa ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter in a docked spacecraft and prepare to abandon ship. The reason was a longstanding, but worsening, air leak in the Russian part of the station. An hour […]
The Bear season five is a brutal final chapter that asks how much a kitchen can endure
The final season of The Bear begins with a rupture. A torrential storm floods the restaurant. Money is short. Deliveries are slashed. The building itself is under threat. The brigade are trying to hold the restaurant together while pursuing a Michelin star. Throughout its run, The Bear has been fascinated by the painful romance of […]
Maternity reviews have told us what is wrong – why are we still waiting for action?
Iryna Inshyna/Shutterstock Bad things have happened in maternity units. Babies have died. Women have been harmed. Families have been ignored, dismissed and left to fight for answers they should never have had to beg for. Safe maternity care must be a national priority. But after more than a decade of investigations, one question has become […]
Three million years after Lucy walked upright in Africa, the inside story of another landmark journey
There is a special gallery inside the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi where visitors slow down, lower their voices and often fall silent. In front of them, carefully lit and disarmingly small, lies the skeleton of Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old hominin. Perhaps more than any other ancient relative, Lucy has challenged us to think deeply […]
China’s Dong minority: why we’re digitally recording and preserving their Indigenous architectural heritage
The Dong people in China are an Indigenous ethnic group who are known to have lived in the mountainous regions of southwestern China for about 600 years. They don’t have a written language – instead their cultural knowledge is shared by word of mouth. This means that the outside world doesn’t know much about them. […]