Sat, Nov 16 2019

Labour has promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030, if it wins the general election. The party would nationalise part of BT and introduce a tax on tech giants to cover the £20bn cost. Shadow…

Many expecting parents enjoy the ultrasounds, which offer real-time footage of the fetus in utero. Unfortunately, you usually only get two: One around the 8-to-12-week mark to confirm the due date, and around 20 weeks to check the baby's anatomy.

Celebrating the Birth by Jan Steen, 1664. © The Wallace Collection, London In the 19th century, poorer families living in cities in Europe had a higher rate of children who weren't biologically related to their legal fathers. This is according…

In August of this year, Gail Bradbrook, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, called for the widespread ingestion of psychedelic substances to help bring about a transformation in attitudes to the climate crisis and the living world. The proposal…

WE SEE its effects in how stars move within galaxies, and how galaxies move within galaxy clusters. Without it, we can't explain how such large collections of matter came to exist, and certainly not how they hang together today. But what it is, we…