Who Invented Paper? A New Discovery in Egypt Upends The Consensus
A recent find at a long-neglected site reveals it was used there more than 2,000 years before first appearing in China By Lydia Wilson When [Read more …]
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Nigerian Author Ayòbámi Adébáyò: I Don’t Want To Be Read For Some Kind Of Anthropology
Six years after her acclaimed debut Stay With Me, the writer is back with a novel that shines a light on the social inequalities of [Read more …]
Research: Men Who Lack Interest In Sex At Risk Of Early Death
A study conducted by researchers from Yamagata University in Japan has suggested the lack of interest in sex as an indicator of risk of early [Read more …]
Murder, Kidnapping And Arson: Nigerian Pirates Switch Targets From Ships To Shore
Attacks on commercial vessels have dropped thanks to more security around the country’s coast – but small fishing communities are facing brutal assault Under a [Read more …]
Medical Breakthrough: Man Given A Year To Live Now Cancer-Free After Immunotherapy Trial
Further studies under way as ‘remarkable’ results offer new hope in treating biliary tract cancer A man given a year to live after being diagnosed [Read more …]
Jim Allison: The Man Who Cracked Cancer For Mankind
Jim Allison is an iconoclastic scientist who toiled in obscurity for years. Then he helped crack a mystery that may save millions of lives: Why [Read more …]
The Trump Coup: 17 Key Findings In The January 6 Committee’s Final Report
Panel looking into storming of Capitol accuses Donald Trump of deliberately making false claims and plotting to overturn 2020 election results The January 6 committee [Read more …]
How Radiocarbon Helps Date Ancient Objects
Nothing good can last—and in the case of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope found in Earth’s atmosphere, that’s great news for archaeologists. Over time, carbon-14 decays in predictable [Read more …]
2022 Winter Solstice In Europe: ‘More People Are Turning To Paganism’
It was a misty, drizzly kind of morning but it did not matter a bit for a record-breaking crowd that made the pilgrimage to Stonehenge for the [Read more …]
Capacious Haiku: Shortest Poem In The World Of Poetry
The spiritual life of an octopus, a woman back from flower viewing and undressing in the privacy of her bedroom, the pale, almost unearthly cries [Read more …]