Nine months into the pandemic, Europe remains one of the regions worst affected by COVID-19. Ten of the 20 countries with the highest death count per million people are European. The other ten are in the Americas. This includes the US, which has the highest number of confirmed cases andContinue Reading
Shutterstock/Alex Kravtsov The serious harm caused by concussion in sport first became apparent among the “punch-drunk” boxers who suffered repetitive blows to the head over the course of their fighting careers. A related form of brain damage is known to affect a range of other sports and professions, where repeatedContinue Reading
RCB vs KXIP IPL 2020 Score: Virat Kohli is playing his 200th game for Royal Challengers Bangalore.© BCCI/IPL Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli has won the toss and opted to bat against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in match 31 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at the SharjahContinue Reading
Follow the Indian Premier League 2020 live cricket score on Sports.NDTV.com. After 2.0 overs, Royal Challengers Bangalore are 18/0. Get live score, ball by ball commentary and much more. Keep track of Indian Premier League 2020 today match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab. Everything related to RoyalContinue Reading
‘C’ is for comedy TikTok users @wellonyc and @stephon23, who each do a version of the “Letter of the Day” series. Screenshots taken from their respective TikTok feeds. Caribbean people are well-known for using humour as a means of social commentary and processing serious issues. In the midst of theContinue Reading
I am always suspicious when members of government begin to denigrate lawyers, and even more so when this happens alongside what seems to be a concerted attempt to reshape the relationship between government authority and law. This is not because lawyers are not worthy of criticism; of course they (we)Continue Reading
Media Whalestock/Shutterstock From self-driving cars, to digital assistants, artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming an integral technology in our lives today. But this same technology that can help to make our day-to-day life easier is also being incorporated into weapons for use in combat situations. Weaponised AI features heavily inContinue Reading
Shutterstock/MartaDM It’s widely believed that social media conspiracy theories are driven by malicious and anonymous “bots” set up by shadowy third parties. But my new research – which examined an extremely successful COVID-19 conspiracy theory – has shown that ordinary citizen accounts can be just as culpable when it comesContinue Reading
Grip strength declines with many health conditions. Lars Hallstrom/ Shutterstock The human hand is remarkable. Not only does it allow us to throw, grab, climb and pick things up, it can also be a measure of health. Using hand-grip strength – which assesses the amount of force a person canContinue Reading
Photo of a nearly full Moon shining brightly on the Earth's atmosphere, taken from the International Space Station. NASA The habitability of a planet depends on many factors. One is the existence of a strong and long-lived magnetic field. These fields are generated thousands of kilometres below the planet’s surfaceContinue Reading
