Period pains: how the menstrual taboo is being challenged
Social taboos over menstruation cause undue shame to millions of women – but it is finally being understood as a human rights issue.
Science & Technology
Fighting the flu, a breakthrough on HIV treatment, and the uses of carbon
Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.
What makes maths beautiful?
For an experienced mathematician, the greatest equations are beautiful as well as useful. Can the rest of us see what they see?
Primordial black holes and an unprecedented discovery
Is it possible that we have witnessed the merger of two massive black holes?
‘‘Saying something is a miracle is a failure of imagination’’
Q&A with philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett.
Remains of the DNA
For the first time, scientists have retrieved the DNA of extinct humans from sediments in caves.
Can humans survive on earth?
Professor Stephen Hawking claims we must colonise another planet in the next 100 years.
What do algorithms know about you?
Q&A with Ed Finn, author of "What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing".
The Mpemba effect, ant navigation, and the mystery of pure gold
Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.
Why physics isn’t dead
Relativity and quantum theory help us make sense of the universe – but physics still has huge mysteries left to unravel.