Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize ...

Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation: Patrick Wilcken brings us the real Brazil, a country at breaking point; Francesca Wade considers the radical interior designs and desires of the ...

IAN SANSOM – Marta Zaraska Meathooked – The history and science of our 2.5-million-year obsession with meat. Mark Schatzker Steak – One man’s search for the world’s tastiest piece of beef ...

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas: Raymond Tallis on the ongoing threat to the NHS; Bee Wilson on descriptions of pregnancy and childbirth; and Marjorie Perloff on seeing O. J. Simpson as Othello.

In 2008, lions in northern Mozambique began to emerge from the bush and eat people. Over a two-month period, more than twenty-five locals were killed. The writer and biologist Mia Couto, whose ...