Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
Why children are not immune to Covid-19
Michelle Fernandes Features correspondent Getty Images Children are certainly not immune to Covid-19 but cases studied so far suggest they get far less severe symptoms…
How getting rid of dustbins helped Taiwan clean up its cities
Hope Ngo Features correspondent Getty Images Landfills, like this one outside Taipei, were full to bursting in the 1990s, leading to public concern about environmental…
How dating app algorithms predict romantic desire
Javier Hirschfeld/ Getty Images “It’s something that single people want to exist – it’s the romantic equivalent of an easy weight-loss plan” (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld/…
What’s so fascinating about weird children’s TV shows?
Linda Geddes Features correspondent Alamy Young children can become transfixed by television programmes that adults find utterly baffling (Credit: Alamy) They depict hypnotic worlds filled…
The problem with India’s man-eating tigers
Rachel Nuwer in Karnataka, India Features correspondent Getty Images There may have once been hundreds of thousands of tigers in India’s forests (Credit: Getty Images)…
How your face betrays your personality and health
David Robson Features correspondent (Getty Images) We are more than just a pretty face. It turns out the shape, size and even colour of our…
Why do we have blood types?
Carl Zimmer Features correspondent (Science Photo Library) More than a century after their discovery, we still don’t know what blood groups like O, A and…
Life of Clarice Cliff celebrated with Stoke-on-Trent blue plaque
Alice Cullinane BBC News, West Midlands ClariceCliff.com Clarice Cliff is famous across the world for her pottery The life of ceramic artist Clarice Cliff has…
How Beloved unearthed the ghosts of a brutal past
Stephanie Watts Powell Features correspondent Getty Images Toni Morrison’s masterpiece told the truth about race, family, slavery and memory in the United States. Stephanie Powell…
Why we’ve always loved seaside style
Amber Butchart Features correspondent The coast has long been a place for promenading and peacocking. Amber Butchart explores nautical sartorial styles, from fishermen’s smocks to…