Science

Bethany Burgoyne spent £51,000 and 17 years removing her body hair before doctors found nothing wrong. Her story exposes the beauty industry's extraction of women's shame.

Liverpool couple Shannon and Ethan Jones say a wedding singer cancelled minutes before the ceremony and never refunded their £1,400 advance payment.

A 237-million-year-old fossil reveals the only amphibian known to have lived in the ocean, and the armour it needed to survive there.

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As the UK scrambles for eclipse glasses, the frenzy reveals how systemic inequities—from class to race to disability—shape who gets to experience cosmic wonder. Radical Quill examines the politics of the 2026 solar eclipse.

Astronomers have discovered four white dwarves hiding near Earth, offering a powerful metaphor for the erasure of marginalized communities and the persistence of systemic oppression.

Ancient DNA confirms malaria killed the Medici brothers, not poison. We deconstruct the elite myths and the ecological violence of Renaissance extractivism.

New archaeological analysis of Denmark's ancient Hjortspring boat challenges colonial narratives about Baltic societies, revealing complex networks that resist simplistic invasion stories.

December's supermoon demands we decolonise astronomy, centring Indigenous knowledge whilst addressing environmental justice and equitable sky access.