Once-weekly HIV pill as effective as daily dose, research shows
Towfiqu ahamed barbhuiya/ Shutterstock Around 78% of people who are living with HIV take a daily pill to manage their infection. These drugs work by preventing the HIV virus from multiplying. Although these drugs are very effective, some people struggle to stick with the daily regimen. There are many reasons for this – including pill […]
Indigenous communities aren’t rejecting tourism – they just want to shape it themselves
Imagine the scene: tourists riding in a jeep through Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela. With their cameras at the ready, they listen to stories of gang violence and gawp at people’s homes, believing they are learning about the “real” Rio beyond the glamorous beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. Far away from the South American […]
Why AI wants you to buy more – and mindfulness could help you buy less
Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock You search online for a pair of trainers. Minutes later, similar shoes appear on social media feeds. A shopping site offers a limited-time discount and suggests a matching jacket. This is no longer just an advert shown to millions of people. Increasingly, artificial intelligence is helping decide not only what you see, but […]
India and Pakistan’s 79-year rivalry has made the dangerous move into space
India and Pakistan fought an intense four-day war in May 2025. But while the media narrative was dominated by fighter jets, drones and missiles, the most consequential contest unfolded in orbit a few hundred kilometres up. That short war was, arguably, the first between two nuclear-armed states to be shaped decisively by the use of […]
Ceuta and Melilla: how the colonial legacies of these cities have shaped migration in the region
Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave on the Moroccan mainland, was unprepared for the arrival of more than 70,000 undocumented migrants on July 30. They arrived mostly by sea, from Morocco via the Tarajal breakwaters and its shoreline. The minuscule city of just seven square miles had few provisions for food, shelter or support for the […]
Europe’s stone age hunters made sea voyages to Malta – thousands of years before evidence of sails
The ability to cross oceans has long been a marker of human endeavour, but when did the seas change from being barriers to movement into the maritime highways we know today? For many years the answer was thought to lie in the Neolithic period – the time when humans made the profound transition from hunting […]
Monkeys keep pets too – animal specialist on the world of interspecies friendship
The first time I saw it, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. A northern white-cheeked gibbon at Shanghai Zoo was holding and caressing a mouse that had wandered into its enclosure. It wasn’t trying to eat it or chase it away. Instead, the gibbon treated the tiny rodent with remarkable gentleness. I […]
Smart clothes will soon be on sale. But regulations are needed to prevent a new waste mountain
When you think of advanced futuristic clothing, what comes to mind? Perhaps shirts that can detect and alert users to low blood glucose levels or socks that can track your running form, step count and speed? What about pyjamas that observe subtle bodily changes while you sleep leading to early detection of cancer or warn […]
Edinburgh festival: how the city’s residents could benefit after the crowds leave
Edinburgh Festival image Euan Cherry Edinburgh Festival Fringe includes more than 3,600 shows this year. The world’s largest arts festival, once again transforming Scotland’s capital into a global stage. But this year, something else opened first. Just two weeks before the Fringe begins on Friday, Scotland’s first visitor levy came into effect: a 5% charge […]
What BTS’ Grammy boycott tells us about the problem with ‘Asian pop’ as a label
K-pop supergroup BTS has announced that they will not be entering their music for the 2027 Grammy awards. The decision seems to be a response to the addition for 2027 of the category “best Asian pop music performance”. The Grammy rulebook describes Asian pop as a “distinct and globally recognised form of popular music”. The […]