This podcast analyses Richard Nixon’s foreign policy during his presidency, focusing on his key initiatives and their outcomes. It examines his efforts to end the Vietnam War, his groundbreaking détente strategy with the …
Deep in the desert, a towering mountain looms, its peaks echoing with the ancient thunder of divine revelation, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Somewhere around, a golden chest, the …
One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by the novelist Winifred Peck (1882-1962). Looking back from the 1950s, Peck …
Susan Monarez, who clashed with the U.S. health secretary over vaccine policy, refuses to step down
Toxic pollutants from a Southern California river are infiltrating the air. Polluted water surging along a turbulent section of the Tijuana River in San Diego can release toxic gases, including …
Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion …
Rain? Or shine? Why do the apps get it wrong so often? Rob Watkins/Alamy If you hung out laundry, visited a beach or fired up the barbecue this week, you …
The abnormally little particles of hexavalent chromium might present a carcinogen regardless of low degrees, scientists claim
In a first, astronomers imaged a baby world within a space in the disk of material around a star, validating forecasts about just how rings develop.