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Melsonby hoard: iron-age Yorkshire discovery reveals ancient Britons’ connections with Europe

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2 April 20251 April 2025

The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 iron-age metal artefacts, which was found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in December 2021. Its discovery represents...Read More >

Just Stop Oil’s protest during The Tempest is an extension of theatre’s radical tradition

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5 February 202525 February 2025

The theatre has long staged and debated society’s most pressing concerns. But when protest moves beyond the script and into the theatre itself, the reaction can shift from applause to...Read More >

AI voice technology used in The Brutalist is nothing new – the backlash is about transparency

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30 January 202530 January 2025

Director Brady Corbet’s stunning new film, The Brutalist, has won three Golden Globes and remains a frontrunner for this year’s Oscars despite a controversy over its use of AI which...Read More >

Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’

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29 January 202518 February 2025

How often do you think about the Roman empire? Elon Musk claims to think about it every day. Given his frequent references to Roman antiquity, I think we can take...Read More >

Why meteorologists are comparing Storm Éowyn to a bomb

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27 January 202527 January 2025

Storm Éowyn makes landfall on Ireland as | European Union/Copernicus Marine Service Data, CC BY Storm Éowyn has unleashed strong and damaging winds over the British Isles, and particularly over...Read More >

My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it’s the hottest year yet

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14 January 202518 February 2025

A new climate stripe has been added for 2024. Ed Hawkins. The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history...Read More >

The supernatural beliefs of medieval people – from elves and fairies to abductions and the undead

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31 October 202413 November 2024

A siren and a centaur, taken from a 1277 manuscript. Courtesy of the Getty Open Content program. Medieval people have a reputation for being superstitious – and many of the...Read More >

AI could transform film visual effects. But first, the technology needs to address copyright debate

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23 October 20247 November 2024

James Cameron. Photo by Steve Jurvetson, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0. While many people in the creative industries are worrying that AI is about to steal their jobs, Oscar-winning film...Read More >

Will the Earth warm by 2°C or 5.5°C? Either way it’s bad, and trying to narrow it down may be a distraction

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18 October 202425 October 2024

Climate change is usually discussed in terms of rising temperatures. But scientists often use a different measure, known as “equilibrium climate sensitivity”. This is defined as the global mean warming...Read More >

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will investigate whether an icy moon of Jupiter can support alien life

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8 October 202425 October 2024

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Seti Institute Discovering extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific and philosophical revelations that our species has ever made. But such a big discovery won’t come easy....Read More >

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