Science, Health and Saving Things

Towards the end of last month, 115 people with no arms or legs gathered in a small village in southern Sweden to talk about their common interests. All in their mid-30s, most of them …

Soon it will be time for Danny La Rue to sing. At the Pleasance theatre in north London at the beginning of May 2001, the 73-year-old entertainer stands onstage in a blue dress and high …

The story of Gregor Mendel is one of the most romantic that science has to offer. In 1854, an ambitious abbot at a cold monastery in Brno, Czechoslovakia, started devoting his spare time to …

For some unfathomable reason, the key episodes often occur in supermarkets. Two years ago, Jenny Stanaway returned home from her work as a cleaner and went for her big weekly shop …

Much has changed in Pat Edwards’s life in the past 40 years. She has divorced, she has moved from London to the South Coast, she has become a grandmother. But one thing has stayed the …

‘I was a typical middle-class junkie,’ a 38-year-old called John L says. ‘Nice family, public school, good at presenting a mask to the world.’ He started with cannabis and glue, and got into coke when …