How John Roberts lost control of the Supreme Court
Here in the United States, Republicans still fully intend to cut taxes. But they’ve largely stopped campaigning on it.
Science Magazine – Butterfly wing patterns are mosaics of colored scales. According to new research, ancient and deeply conserved multifunctional gene regulatory elements play a crucial role in creating these diverse patterns.
With benefits unclear, some scientists question new round of shots for young people
Second Bolsonaro term could be “final nail” for science and environment
Study of DNA from medieval victims and survivors finds gene that helped protect people from deadly pathogen
Better technology and falling launch costs revive interest in a science-fiction technology
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 reopened arguments about the presumed race of the ancient Egyptians.
After the death of her husband in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt left the White House and embarked upon a new career as ‘First Lady of the World’.
Brazilian democracy is young, hard-won and under threat. As the country goes to the polls, its history reminds us that the right to vote is not a given.
Iranian women have always been present in national uprisings, but this time they are leading them.
A Nature special issue – 20 October 2022:
Science is “a shared experience, subject both to the best of what creativity and imagination have to offer and to humankind’s worst excesses”. So wrote the guest editors of this special issue of Nature, Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam and Elizabeth Wathuti, in a June 2022 editorial announcing their involvement.
Country Life 19 October 2022 looks at springer spaniels, Manet, the nature writing of ‘BB’ and meets bladesmith Owen Bush.
Jack Watkins admires Stubbs’s racehorse portrait Gimcrack
The Welsh springer is a brainy, loyal dual-purpose spaniel, observes Katy Birchall
Ten field sportsmen and women reveal their perfect days with rod or hawk to Octavia Pollock
Claire Jackson meets imposing bladesmith Owen Bush and dares to swing one of his sharp and gleaming swords
John Hoyland canvasses gardeners and designers about the plants that best survived the drought
Artistic recognition came too late in life for Édouard Manet, regrets Michael Prodger
The October 21, 2022 cover story this week steps back from the news agenda to explore the impact of living with long Covid. For millions of people worldwide who have survived initial infection with the virus, recovery is slow. Symptoms such as breathlessness, fatigue and loss of smell or taste persist for months and, as our science editor Ian Sample explains, treatments that work for some may not be successful for others.
This week delegates to the Chinese Communist party’s 20th congress are in Beijing where they are expected to rubber stamp Xi Jinping’s historic third term as leader. Our big story looks at what the president’s supremacy means for the country and its closest neighbour – Taiwan – which lives in the shadow of Xi’s avowed intention to bring the island back under China’s tutelage.
The empty promise of the Sixth Amendment, Siegfried & Roy’s rise and fall, a Guggenheim scapegoat, and independence for Puerto Rico. Plus stopping election deniers, Atlanta hip-hop, Orhan Pamuk, ABBA Voyage, a bygone Boston, new fiction, and more.
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
At the peak of their fame, they were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini.
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish?
The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States.
This week’s issue of the TLS, featuring @George_Berridge , Claire Lowdon and Edmund Gordon on new books by Cormac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver and George Saunders, respectively; Gabriel Josipovici on Cézanne; @15thcgossipgirl on Chaucer’s innocence; @rinireg on hatred – and more.
Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide
Advanced materials can modify waves, creating optical illusions and useful technologies
For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted
The New Republic – November 2022
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