In February, Canada will host the first-ever winter Invictus Games, an athletic competition for wounded and injured veterans from around the world. This year, 550 athletes from 25 countries will compete in both traditional Invictus Games sports…
The deep sea lacks plant life, which would require sunlight to make food. However, even without the sunlight that fuels life on the surface of the Earth, deep sea creatures have adaptations that allow them to make this habitat their…
If Britain were properly governed, Keir Giles would still be “institutionalized in the Ministry of Defence” as he tells me. But Britain is in a mess, and one sign of this is that he is out of public service and able to describe its…
As the global sports community remains indecisive about banning Russian athletes, their participation in international events continues to grow, despite mounting geopolitical tensions. The intertwined nature of Russian sports and propaganda…
Over the past few days, three European countries have raised the alert level for HPAI.
From October 16, the risk level has been raised to “moderate” across mainland France. According to the agriculture ministry, the change is justified by…
A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts.
Leslie Valiant, the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the John H. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has spent decades studying human cognition. His…
They may be microscopic, but tardigrades are larger than life.
Called “water bears” because of their plump shape and lumbering movement, the ancient micro-animals are nearly indestructible, able to survive anything from deadly radiation and arctic temperatures to the vacuum of…
Genes are the control panel for an embryo morphing from a ball of cells into organs, muscles, and limbs, but there’s more involved than just genetics. There’s also physics — the shaping of tissues by flows and forces from cellular activity and growth.
Two recent studies in
Physical and moral torture, sexual violence, illegal sentencing and violent execution — this is what Ukrainian prisoners of war are going through once in Russian captivity.
Ukrainian prosecutor general Andriy Kostin says up to 90%…