From the summit of Mount Everest to the deep depths of the Marianna Trench – and even our brains. Microplastics – tiny substances linked to cancer, infertility and a host of health issues – are found everywhere.
A new film, called ‘Plastic People,’ has tracked the particle problem to the 1950s when the plastic industry convinced the public to abandon their thrift and frugality in favor of disposable products more beneficial to their bottom line.
The documentary team zeroed
Scientists are scrambling to find the cause of a mystery cancer ‘epidemic’ which is striking under-50s.
Kate Middleton’s shock diagnosis last week has shone a light on the startling trend, with top doctors claiming it is a worldwide problem.
Despite years of research, researchers are baffled as to what is behind the problem.
Increased awareness thanks to the likes of Dame Deborah James, who died from bowel cancer aged 40 in 2022, and improved diagnosis methods are thought to have
A female nurse clinician overseeing a drug trial in the early 1990s posed a question that she noticed the male volunteers were reluctant to address.
That is, save for one brave soul. Asked if there were any noticeable side-effects to the treatment he had been receiving, he confided the truth: he had been having robust erections throughout the night.
‘At this point many of the other men admitted they had, too,’ says Dr David Brown, one of the team of
For so long, it lay in the corner of my living room, unloved and dusty. Much of the time it was forgotten, partially hidden under the couch; an element of my house now as redundant as the salad spinner and the talcum powder given to me for Christmas in 2011.
But then, last year, my landline telephone suddenly returned to being a vital component of my life — to the eventual enragement of my partner, but, no doubt, to the
Ricardo Bofill, ein spanischer Architekt hinter einigen der erstaunlichsten Gebäude der Welt, starb am Freitag in einem Krankenhaus in Barcelona. Er war 82.
Die Ursache sei Covid-19, sagte sein Sohn Pablo.
Zu Herrn Bofills bekanntesten Werken gehörten öffentliche Wohnungsbauprojekte, die größtenteils in den 1980er Jahren in Frankreich gebaut wurden, mit stark überdimensionierten klassischen Elementen, die sowohl als Kitsch verspottet als auch von Kritikern als lang ersehnter Mittelweg zwischen Historismus und Moderne gefeiert wurden.
Er begann seine Karriere mit einer Reihe
When the abolition of the slave trade finally came to pass, at least in England, the British were desperate to make amends. Parliament promptly declared that it would pay the enslavers £20 million—40 percent of Britain’s annual budget—as compensation for the abrupt loss of their “property.” Worse still, before the still-enslaved Africans and Afro-Caribbeans could muster a celebratory cheer, the colonial
