The Conversation

By Thomas Gift, UCL A few days ago, in a move that attracted international attention, the White House threatened to strip Harvard University of US$2 billion (£1.5 billion) in federal funding, ...

By Joel Hodge and Antonia Pizzey Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday, aged 88, the Vatican announced. The head of the Catholic Church had recently survived being hospitalised with a ...

By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski Hot cross buns aren’t just a sweet snack that appears around Easter. They carry centuries of storytelling in their dough. From ancient gods to ...

By Margaret Murray and Andrew Costanzo With Easter upon us, you’ll have seen chocolate Easter eggs on supermarket shelves. Maybe you’ve bought some already. But is there a ...

By Danielle Mariann Dove The upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation by Saltburn director Emerald Fennell has courted controversy since it was first announced, with Fennell’s choice of leading lady and ...

By Mike Climstein, Jeremy Hudson, Michael Stapelberg and Nedeljka Rosic You’ve got a new brown spot on your face, but is it a freckle or a sunspot? Or perhaps ...

Timothy Hearn, Anglia Ruskin University From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the ...

By Will Hawkes As I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of tiny black dots, ...

By Zoe Porter and Laurence Orlando Earlier this month, Kmart pulled a “hyaluronic acid cleansing balm” from its shelves, after a teen who used the skincare product was hospitalised, reporting ...

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu had expected to become Turkey’s opposition presidential nominee on March 23, 2025; instead, he lost his freedom and college ...

By Brooke Nickel, Joshua Zadro and Ray Moynihan When Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram about having had a full-body MRI, she enthused that the test can be “life saving”, detecting ...

By Michelle Spear Shimmering, wobbling and painstakingly prepared, jelly was a staple of elite Victorian dining tables. But beneath its elegant presentation lay a deeper significance – one that reveals much ...

By Jordan Foster The internet is abuzz with talk of beauty and the lengths we’ll go to achieve it. From Lindsay Lohan’s recent transformation to Donatella Versace’s “...

By Kent Dunlap I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter’s wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin ...

By Pierre-Yann Dolbec American rapper Doechii turned heads on the Grammy Awards red carpet on Februay. 2 in a striking Thom Browne ensemble: an off-the-shoulder corset suit dress with exaggerated hips, ...

By Mandy Hagstrom and Justin Keogh Callisthenics is a type of training where you do bodyweight exercises to build strength. It’s versatile, low cost, and easy to start. Classic ...

By Stefan Schmitt Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being uncovered in liberated areas. Grim as such discoveries are, they ...

By Harriette Richards Despite the many musical achievements celebrated at this year’s Grammy Awards, it was Bianca Censori’s red carpet appearance that won the award for most headlines. ...

By Rachel Lamarche-Beauchesne Dotted across northern Australia are 21 saltwater crocodile farms, home to around 130,000 crocodiles. Their skins are turned into crocodile leather, long sought for use in luxury handbags, belts ...

By Dannagal G Young It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address. And so it is. The latest installment of that assertion ...

By Dee Ninis Greece’s government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island multiple times a day and sometimes only ...

Maha Nassar President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” is ...

By Michelle Spear When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to see that his skin – and even the whites of ...

By Alexandra Sherlock Australian-owned brand UGG Since 1974 has announced it will change its name to “Since 74” for sales outside Australia and New Zealand. There has been a long-running battle over ...