"Volume 18 (2026): Issue 2 (Sep 2026)" published on 28 Sep 2026 by Brill.

The six men were sentenced to between six and 10 years in prison over the deaths of at least 31 people in the Channel in 2021.

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Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted dying campaigner Esther Rantzen, the Bafta-winning TV presenter and founder of ChildLine, has died aged 86. She announced a diagnosis of stage four lung cancer in 2023, and became a vocal campaigner to reform the law around assisted dying. In September 2026, she announced that she had to abandon plans to end her life in Swiss clinic Dignitas, due to being too physically frail. Continue reading...

Recommended changes for measuring ferritin levels could help more people get early treatment for one of the most common blood disorders.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers developed a robot powered by living muscle cells that move in response to flashes of light.

‘Almost everything is imitation,’ Voltaire wrote in one of the French editions of Lettres philosophiques. Books were...

The rainy-day streak is the longest since the Japan Meteorological Agency began keeping records in 1886.

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.

Join us for the Lynne and James Spellman Lecture in the History of Science, featuring Dr. Angela Potochnik, professor of philosophy, head of the Philosophy Department and founding director of the Cent...

The protests were sparked by the eviction of an 87-year-old pensioner, Maricarmen Abascal, after her rent for the home she'd lived in for 70 years was hiked by 275%.

The multibillion-dollar LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, Shell Energy Canada says, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coasta...