Harriet Brewis

A giant structure lurking in the distant Universe is fundamentally undermining our understanding of how the cosmos evolved.Astronomers located the unimaginably large, almost perfect ring of galaxies, in light that had travelled for 6.9 billion years to reach us.The Big Ring, as the structure is now ...

We all know someone who “swears by” a particular “hangover cure”, whether that’s a greasy fry-up the morning after or a specially designed supplement.However, scientists in Switzerland have now created an actual hangover cure, which works by breaking down alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract.Resear...

In April 1986, the world suffered its worst nuclear disaster to date when a reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, exploded.The eruption was so severe that toxic levels of radioactive material spewed out of the plant for 10 days, with more than 50 tons of the stuff carried through the air ...

Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza may be one of the most iconic landmarks on the planet but, beneath its surrounding sands, there still lie countless untold secrets.Now, archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious L-shaped structure buried beside the ancient monument, which they believe was built at the ...

It’s long been assumed that if alien civilisations do exist, they’re a hell of a lot smarter than we are.And yet, whilst a team of scientists agrees that this is probably true, they’ve also proven that they’re clever enough themselves to track these ETs down.The international team of researchers, ba...

Our poor ancestral cousins, the Neanderthals, were doomed to extinction. And yet, almost two centuries since their remains were first discovered, experts continue to puzzle over what caused their ultimate demise.Now, experts studying the role diseases may have played in their destruction, have ended...

You might think that winning one of the biggest lottery jackpots in US history would spell an end to your money woes.But one man, who scooped a staggering $1.35 billion (more than £1 billion), has been slapped with a likely costly lawsuit by his own family.The unidentified winner, who bought his gol...

The Olympic Games may be a hotbed of sweaty bodies and testosterone, but authorities are doing everything they can to stop athletes from getting physical with each other.So-called “anti-sex” beds have now officially arrived in Paris ahead of this year’s event, with the aim of deterring competitors f...

Many of us have grown inured to explicit content given that it’s positively force-fed to us on screens these days.Even so, few viewers were prepared for what the new Netflix drama A Man in Full had in store.The series is based on the 1998 Tom Wolfe novel of the same name, which follows real estate t...

A 13,000-word article published by the New Yorker is one of the most hotly debated pieces of journalism right now and yet, people can’t even read it.The long read by Rachel Aviv examines “serious questions about the evidence” in the trial of Lucy Letby who, last August, was named as Britain’s most p...