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Saint James, ‘brother’ of Jesus: it turns out his ancient remains belong to someone else
Hunched innocuously in the shadow of Rome’s mighty Piazza Venezia, just a stone’s throw from one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, the Santi Apostoli church might be forgiven for having more respect for the dead than for the living. That’s because of the treasures that the church protects. As wellContinue Reading
Swiss Open: Satwiksairaj Ranikreddy-Ashwini Ponappa, Ajay Jayaram Crash Out | Badminton News
Satwiksairaj Ranikreddy and Ashwini Ponappa crashed out of Swiss Open on Friday.© AFP Indian mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa’s fine run in the ongoing Swiss Open came to a disappointing end after a defeat in the quarter-finals on Friday. Satwiksairaj and Ashwini showed top-notch fighting spiritContinue Reading
Coronavirus: will immunity rapidly fade or last a lifetime?
The COVID vaccines are working. Data from Israel and Scotland shows that they are protecting people and may also be decreasing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If it all holds up, people will be protected from severe disease, the amount of virus will progressively decrease, and we can trulyContinue Reading
Plymouth MP brands NHS 1% pay rise ‘pitiful’
Luke Pollard, the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has joined with Labour leader Keir Starmer in calling for a pay rise for NHS staff – calling them “Plymouth’s COVID heroes”. Now the small print of the Chancellor’s Budget, announced on Wednesday, is beginning to be understood, it has been revealed thatContinue Reading
NFT art: the bizarre world where burning a Banksy can make it more valuable
The Banksy print that was burnt. Flickr/eddiedangerous, CC BY-SA A blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork and burnt it. But instead of destroying the value of the art, they claim to have made it more valuable, because it was sold as a piece of blockchain art. TheContinue Reading
How coronavirus has changed us: join an online discussion with three experts in human behaviour
DisobeyArt/Shutterstock Do you remember where you were when you heard that the COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic? For many of us, that day – March 11 2020 – was the day that everything changed. Suddenly, a rumbling news story about a mystery illness became a matter of concern forContinue Reading
Why Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond were grilled by Scotland’s parliament – a legal expert explains
It is rare that a parliamentary panel into the creation and use of an internal government policy would get full-blown live media coverage, never mind an audience of thousands tuning in agog to hear the evidence. But a recent Scottish parliament hearing was not like any other held in HolyroodContinue Reading
Pope Francis in Iraq: visit highlights recent history of atrocities against Christians
Recording casualties during a conflict can provide a body of evidence of how violence has affected particular communities or groups, such as the Yazidis in Iraq and the Kurds in Syria. When the Islamic State entered Iraq in 2014, they immediately started committing gross human rights violations and displayed violenceContinue Reading
‘Backup’ pacemaker discovery in goats could have important implications for human hearts
This research could change our understanding of the heart. Liya Graphics/ Shutterstock Around sixty times every minute, your heart beats, delivering nutrients and removing waste from every cell in your body. It has been doing this since you were in the womb – the heart forms 18 days into foetalContinue Reading
What’s really behind Rishi Sunak’s decision to move part of the Treasury to Darlington?
The idea of relocating Whitehall departments to the regions has a long but rather mundane history in the UK. Already, more than 80% of civil servants are based outside London – probably higher than most of us assume, given Britain’s highly centralised political system. If we exclude the Ministry ofContinue Reading