As Ernest Hemingway famously claimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry ...

Ruth Padel has published five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is The Soho Leopard.

In aperture synthesis, the individual dishes move one step at a time along railway tracks, registering radio waves from the ...

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Guatemala’s future is on the line, as its new president Bernardo Arévalo battles a corrupt political establishment ...

A street in Kyiv, Ukraine before the war. Credit: Alamy Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War With Russia (Yale University Press) by Adrian Karatnycky In 1992, a year after the collapse ...

NHS midwife Piroska Cavell was in the middle of her night shift and caring for a woman in labour when she realised that she couldn’t move her mouth. Alone in a hospital room, she was physically unable ...

I didn’t understand Taylor Swift fans until I married a football supporter. The pop star’s intense fandom had confused me for quite a while. Her songs seemed bland and formulaic, her image wholesome, ...

We'll never be able to visit the plasma at the edge of a black hole – but scientists managed to recreate it in a lab In school, we learn that there are three basic states of matter: solid, liquid and ...

Blood transfusions save millions of lives every year, but they come with a critical caveat: compatibility. Using the incorrect blood type will result in immediate rejection, which can cause kidney ...