
In Madagascar, Gen-Z overthrew a corrupt regime but the battle against state capture has barely begun
The youth-led protests of 2025 were not the first time the Malagasy people created a window of opportunity for change.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

The youth-led protests of 2025 were not the first time the Malagasy people created a window of opportunity for change.

Royal relics in Madagascar confer legitimacy on rulers.

The most famous Scottish cannibal was Sawney Bean, a 16th-century man who, with his wife and children, supposedly killed and ate travellers to the Ayrshire coast.

Continuous glucose monitors are changing diabetes care, but they have limits that matter during the most extreme blood sugar events.

Financial pressures can reduce the amount of time, energy and emotional capacity available for revision.

The species most at risk may not always be the ones we expect.

Three economists explore the viability of a UN-backed one-stop licensing ‘hub’ for making essential, often life-saving biotherapeutics and vaccines both affordable and more widely available.

Researchers spoke to relocated people in India and Bangladesh to find out what worked.

Why is a European border located on African soil? And why has the dispute about Ceuta and Spanish colonization remained unresolved for so long?

Across the world, science museums are beginning to join conversations and develop work about mental health.

Research shows that festivals and gatherings can change the way people choose to live.

Revenues for Michigan’s districts have failed to keep pace with inflation and the evolving needs of today’s students.