The 1940s film star was worshipped for her looks – but they were also a poisoned chalice when it came to her career and legacy. Nearly a century on, has…

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has regularly produced and disseminated a large number of disinformation messages and fake narratives related to the discrediting of the Ukrainian authorities,…

Rihanna has told the BBC that being able to wear fashionable clothes in public again after having two children has led to a personal “rediscovery”. The singer revealed she got “too…

Set in one of Banff National Park’s most stunning locations, these historical cabins are only accessible to those who hike, ski, snowshoe or bike in. I battled another incline, sucking in…

Few travellers venture to Cuba’s south-eastern corner, but a little-known road offers a fascinating – and stunning – glimpse of the nation’s revolutionary past. “We’re going the back way to Santiago,”…

More than a century since the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, this first-person testimony of survivor Frank Prentice remains a powerful and harrowing account of the sheer terror felt…

When Paul McCartney was putting the finishing touches to Blackbird in 1968, he called up the EMI sound effects library and requested a tape labelled Volume Seven: Birds of Feather. As…

Table-top filters can remove contaminants from tap water – but are they really necessary, and could they cause unintentional harm? If she can help it, Shima Chin-See avoids drinking water straight…

From mysterious clicking noises in a fish tank in a lab, to humming haddocks and singing toadfish, scientists are discovering the wonder of underwater communication. When you think about how fish…

Dr Arun Thirunavukarasu, who studied at the University of Cambridge, said AI could decide urgent cases that need to be seen by specialists. Cambridge University academics tested ChatGPT 4 against the…