A brittle star of the species _Gorgonocephalus eucnemis_. Lagunatic Photo / Getty Images You may have read that the deep sea is a very different environment from the land and shallow water. There is no light, it is very...
United Artists/Getty Images In 1955, director Charles Laughton crafted one of the darkest, strangest fairytales ever to come out of Hollywood. The Night of the Hunter remains visually exquisite and profoundly unsettling....

How public development banks could narrow inequality gaps between the Global North and South
The United Nations Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) recently concluded in Seville, Spain. It gathered global leaders from government, development, academia and civil society to discuss...
Sweet spot for daily steps is lower than often thought, new study finds
Focus and blur. Your fitness tracker might be lying to you. That 10,000-step target flashing on your wrist? It didnt come from decades of careful research. It came from a Japanese walking club and a marketing campaign in...

Swirling nebula of two dying stars revealed in spectacular detail in new Webb telescope image
The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image wed been awaiting for five long years an infrared photo of two dying stars wed requested from the Very Large Telescope...
Cycling’s governing body is introducing new rules to slow down elite riders. Not everyone’s happy
MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images Most sports look to support their athletes to become faster, higher, stronger in reference to the Olympic Games original motto so it is perhaps surprising that cyclings world...
JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images The worlds highest court says countries are legally obliged to prevent harms caused by climate change, in a ruling that repudiates Australias claims it is not legally responsible for...