The former BBC presenter Huw Edwards’ guilty plea to charges of making indecent images of children has sent the corporation into damage limitation mode, raising questions about management’s handling of the scandal and the impact on its reputation. “The BBC is shocked to hear the details which have emerged in court today,” said a spokesperson … Read more
Researchers use a timeseries of coral reef 3D models to study coral bleaching in Maui. Credit: Smith Lab, 100 Island Challenge In a study, published July 31 in the journal PLOS ONE, marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Arizona State University provide a first-of-its-kind glimpse into coral “bleaching” responses … Read more
A group of United Nations experts is calling on the US federal, state and local authorities to take “immediate and comprehensive” action to resolve a long-standing scandal where people are languishing behind bars after being allegedly tortured by Chicago police to extract false confessions. The group of UN special rapporteurs, who specialize in addressing the … Read more
Cancer affects virtually all multicellular organisms, birds included. A new study highlights the trade-off between investment in reproduction and DNA maintenance. Birds laying larger numbers of eggs have less resources available to ensure the integrity of their DNA, leaving them more vulnerable to cancer. Credit: Jason Drees In one of the largest studies of cancer … Read more
There’s a time when politicians should know to keep silent. We all want answers to the horrific attack on the dance club in Southport that left three children dead and five others critically injured. We want to make sense of the senseless. It’s a normal coping mechanism. We need to feel as if we are … Read more
Citius, altius, antibioticus. On a clammy Wednesday morning in the 8th arrondissement Paris 2024 staged what is, quietly but in plain sight, the keynote event of France’s entire Olympic project. The women’s and men’s triathlon competitions were held in a loop, returning each time to the startlingly beautiful Pont Alexandre III – also known as … Read more
Photograph of a Broad-billed Tody, Todus subulatus, a member of the bird group Coraciimorphae. In the current issue, Berv et al. identify this group of birds and others as having close ties to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that occurred in the wake of the Chicxulub asteroid impact ~66 million years ago. Berv et al. propose … Read more
A British police special enquiry team is examining allegations that Will Lewis, now the chief executive of the Washington Post, presided over the deliberate destruction of emails at Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper business when he worked for the company 13 years ago. The Met has told the former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown that its … Read more
Police officers are braced for further violence from far-right agitators in Southport in the days ahead as the seaside town struggled to come to terms with a knife attack that killed three children and left several others in a critical condition. A mob of up to 300 attacked officers with bricks, destroyed garden walls, set … Read more
Iranian state media praised Hamas “political chief” Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday as a key figure who pushed Israel to the “brink of extinction,” celebrating the explicitly genocidal intent of Hamas leadership hours after an airstrike eliminated Haniyeh in the early morning hours of the day. Haniyeh was in Tehran on Tuesday for the inauguration of new … Read more