
Six ways people have used magic to protect their homes throughout history – from witch bottles to ‘hag stones’
If you’ve got problem neighbours, or your house and garden seem to suffer from bad luck, perhaps it’s time to try a magical solution.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

If you’ve got problem neighbours, or your house and garden seem to suffer from bad luck, perhaps it’s time to try a magical solution.

Some experts believe what we are sometimes seeing today is not true gentle parenting, but rather an anxious drift into permissive parenting.

This innovative production combines Sophocles’ revenge play with Ingmar Bergman’s film to explore ideas of identity and performativity.

What gardeners do at the end of the growing season will determine how clean, productive and manageable their garden beds will be when spring arrives.

Many levees built in the mid-1900s do not offer enough protection for today’s storms, and small rural communities in particular struggle to afford needed upgrades.

El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely to be the strongest in over a century.

Bacteria use strategies similar to artificial neural networks to use the past to adapt to the future.

A small party with socialist roots stands as possible kingmaker in Saxony-Anhalt.

Horses have been used to make antivenom for more than a century. Could our new research offer a better way?

We need to stop worrying about intelligent machines and start building intelligent societies.

Roman Slepcsik’s plight shows how people become embedded in families, communities and workplaces in ways immigration categories alone cannot capture.

Newsrooms, rather than acting as critical watchdogs, arguably echoed the Bush administration’s narrative.