Should bike helmets be compulsory? The issue has divided road-safety experts for decades. Wearing a helmet definitely makes any injuries from a head impact less serious, but science is less conclusive on whether compulsory-helmet laws reduce injuries overall.
There was little hope for one-year-old Layla. She was dying from what doctors had believed to be an incurable leukemia. All previous treatments had failed. In a last-ditch effort, doctors used an experimental form of gene therapy on her. And, so far at least, it has worked.
Each year, Forbes magazine releases its ranking of the world’s most powerful people—and it just can’t get enough of Vladimir Putin. The Russian president has topped Forbes’ list for the third year in a row.
What better way to represent how you feel than with an emoji?
It’s taken 155 years, but a woman has finally won Australia’s biggest horse race. As the fourth woman ever to ride in the Melbourne Cup—beating odds of 100 to 1—Michelle Payne dedicated her win to female jockeys and called out the sexism she felt was rife in horse racing.
The settlement on the outskirts of Calais has no official name, but everyone calls it “the Jungle”
A leading Belgian brewery has had to temporarily halt production—and it’s blaming climate change.
Death rates have been decreasing in the US, but one group has been bucking the trend in the past 15 years. While rates have continued to fall for other racial groups in the US, and for people in other rich countries, mortality rates for middle-aged white Americans have been rising since 1998.
The NFL and rugby have more in common than large men chasing an oval ball and slamming into each other. They are both expanding globally—and joining forces in the process.
To the delight of Shakespeare fans everywhere, the British government has unveiled a new passport design. The 37-page document features the UK’s most famous playwright on every page.
The US has overtaken the Cayman Islands and Singapore in a financial secrecy name-and-shame list compiled biennially by the UK-based advocacy group Tax Justice Network.
Antarctica is currently gaining more ice than it’s losing, according to a recent study by NASA.
It’s taken almost 14 years, but Wikipedia now has over five million English-language articles.
Could dating apps like Tinder be responsible for an increase in sexually-transmitted diseases? The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV warns these apps could start an “explosion” of STDs and insists they have a duty “to invest more time in pushing a safe sex message.”
Who knew whisky could be so useful?
When world leaders meet in Paris this December to agree on measures to fight climate change, they will be amply armed with information about how rising global temperatures affect the developed world. But they’ll be considerably less informed about the potentially far more devastating effects expected elsewhere. That’s because scientific research on climate change that concerns, or is produced in, the poorest and most vulnerable countries is largely missing.
Victorian-era diseases, such as gout and malnutrition, have dramatically risen in England in the past five years.
From the food it puts in the cafeteria to increasing maternity leave, Google seems to always be one step ahead of its competitors when it comes to its management policies. In a bid to “make work better,” the search giant is sharing its data-focused approach to HR and management with new guides and free public tools on its new site, re:Work, which it calls a “curated platform.”
Britain’s Secret Intelligent Service, the spy agency better known as MI6, has launched its latest recruitment campaign looking for people with “emotional intelligence” just as the new James Bond film, Spectre, is released. But it turns out its most famous son wouldn’t make the cut.
The Rosetta space probe landed last year on Comet 67P after taking 10 years to make the 4-billion-mile trip to get there. Researchers have now found oxygen on its own in the cloud of gas surrounding the comet, which they describe as “the most surprising discovery” yet.
When it comes to dealing with Europe’s escalating refugee crisis, neighboring countries could not be more polarized.
Most animals, including humans, follow an important principle—they don’t poo where they eat.
Good news, Europe! Mobile data roaming charges will be abolished from June 2017.
Do you greet a stranger by kissing them on the cheek or giving them a firm handshake?
