Sun, Feb 16 2020

Sixty years after the men's tournament began, the first Women's World Cup was held in 1991. We both grew up watching the games and were inspired to join all-girls football teams at our high schools. While some of us only could dream of scoring a…

The tiny Polish village of Miejsce Odrzanskie has become the unlikely source of international media attention over the past fortnight as a result of what the New York Times called “ a strange population anomaly ”. It has now been…

When anti-semitism still appeared to be the Labour membership's most glaring problem with intra-party prejudice and related mudslinging, great importance attached to definitions. What might seem to some members a perfectly allowable comment on the…

New research suggests the scale of plastic pollution in our oceans could be a million times worse than previously recorded. The researchers analysed the intestines of tiny filter-feeding invertebrates called salps, finding previously undetected…

The Guardian

Health data paints a rich picture of our lives. Even if you remove your name, date of birth and NHS number to “anonymise” yourself, a full health history will reveal your age, gender, the places where you have lived, your family…