With exclusive access to new research, David Olusoga reveals how thousands more people became slave traders and how their profits were invested in Britain’s towns and industries.

Around 8 million people in England take five or more prescription drugs each day.

Not even experts can agree on what the term means.

Are technological advances making us any safer? It appears not.

A recent paper claimed that dark energy might not exist. But new research suggests this conclusion was premature.

The changing face of demographics, immigration, social attitudes and LGBTQ+ politics.

Listen to palaeobiologist Neil Gostling on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast talk about how scientists work out what dinosaurs looked like.

New research shows Arctic winter sea ice loss has not stopped – it was temporarily hidden by natural variability.

Heatwaves can damage hearts, kidneys, lungs and infrastructure.

If SUVs were a country, they would be one of the world’s five biggest CO₂ emitters.

New study finds most people with severe breathing difficulties also suffer from other health issues like osteoporosis, eczema and chronic sinusitis

Helen Geake and Martyn Williams find out more about a crannog in a Scottish loch which has been hiding a secret about its construction. Dr Stephanie Blankshein from the University of Southampton expla...

In the Antarctic, things may be unfolding faster than climate models predicted – new study.

Discovering he is getting old before his time, David Cox tries to lower his biological age by changing his diet in a helpful new book, The Age Code, says Graham Lawton

The root of tormentil was used in Irish folklore and European traditional medicine to treat wounds, sore throats, diarrhoea and gum disease.

The US and Israel have taken a huge risk by attacking Iran. This war will make the world a more dangerous place.

Golders Green started to develop as a place of Jewish settlement from the first world war onwards.

One one in ten residents in England take the same view as Reform’s candidate for Gorton and Denton.

Here are five short game poems, all playable in a web browser, that explore themes of love, intimacy, longing and separation.

Art projects can help unlock more enthusiasm from citizens for deposit return schemes, reuse pilots or new recycling sorting rules.

When cargo falls into the sea, it becomes an accidental ocean currents experiment.

Ethnicity can be consciously adjusted in response to the risks women face in public spaces.

An expert in international maritime law spells out what the international law of the sea has to say on incidents of this sort.

Flu, Mpox and Victorian disease rubella are among the diseases doctors are most worried about for the upcoming 12 months, after unprecedented outbreaks of 'super flu' across the UK

A molecular superfluid, high-resolution microscope and a protein qubit are on our list

Are we seeing inter-generational economic injustice?

This locked-room mystery offers a lifetime of stored resentments, jealousies and greed spill over into brutal hatred – a bit like a family Christmas then.

We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.

Colombian authorities say they’ve retrieved items from what they think is the San Jose

In his new book, This is for Everyone, the creator of the web argues for protection against the power and privacy invasion of big tech companies.