
Before Greek myths reached the multiplex, they were weapons of political satire
Eighteenth-century caricaturists knew what modern film-makers understand: ancient myths can be endlessly adapted for new audiences.
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Eighteenth-century caricaturists knew what modern film-makers understand: ancient myths can be endlessly adapted for new audiences.

Some age-related decline is locked in. Strength, balance and fall risk are not – and the evidence shows what works.

Black academics can mourn a young colleague while also anticipating the burden his case may place on scholars who may find their own qualifications subjected to renewed suspicion.

Facing pressures in both marine and terrestrial environments, the marbled murrelet is listed as threatened under Canada’s Species at Risk Act.

There is a difference between being invited into a university and feeling wanted there.

True crime’s popularity can be explained by human psychological mechanisms and social needs.

Lady Isabella thinks she’s “aristocracy’s answer to the Kardashians” but visibility has a strange, unexpected effect on her.

For some, Italianness is still defined by being white.

One way to guard against misinformation is to empower people to identify climate doom in the first place.

The new machine works in a different way to many other quantum devices.

PSA testing hasn’t been banned – but the row over prostate cancer screening reveals a genuine scientific and ethical dilemma.

A scholar of India explores how two 19th-century memoirs portray a land where different religious identities coexist.