
Four New Insect Species Have Been Named After Taylor Swift, and One Is Called Poetorum
A doctoral student at Riverside spent years identifying specimens that had sat in a drawer since the early 2000s, and named the genus she found Swiftiephylus.
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A doctoral student at Riverside spent years identifying specimens that had sat in a drawer since the early 2000s, and named the genus she found Swiftiephylus.

Young children need something tangible to understand what has happened, and the gentle language adults reach for is usually the thing that confuses…

The resentment felt by the adult child who lives nearest is entirely reasonable, and the way out of it is a specific conversation rather than a…

A children's author who spent eight years teaching says books have to compete as entertainment, and that pitching them as self-improvement guarantees…

Future health is an impossible sell to somebody who is 14 and fit, so the more effective line is that their appetite is being monetised.

Kering's foundation backs Project DOT, which teaches teenagers a vocabulary for harassment and coercion that most of them say their schools never…

Four cabins on stilts in a Stirlingshire wood have no wifi and no television, are under an hour from Glasgow airport, and are booked on exactly that…

The Four Seasons at Sayan has built a silent retreat around its own guests, and the hardest part is not the meditation, it is the first forty-eight…

The gathering's fortieth year drew more than 60,000 people to the Nevada desert, and the deaths of three men across three consecutive days have…

Search traffic for Halloween countdown calendars is at its highest ever this year, and the format has split into three quite different products.

The writer who turned a magazine into a movement was still hosting organising meetings in her own front room, and left word that the practice should…