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Autism, empathy and psychopaths
Autistic people have been thought to all lack empathy by both science and society for decades. But after receiving an extremely low empathy score as part of a recent autism assessment, science journa…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
BBC Trending: Are we dating the same person?
At the start of 2025, a chat appeared on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. It was named Are We Dating The Same Girl? At first only a few hundred people joined. Soon that was thousands, and its co…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Assignment: Syria - return to ruins
Thirteen million Syrians - half the population - left their homes during their country's 13-year civil war. Seven million were internally displaced. Six million fled abroad. Bringing them home is per…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
In the Studio: Luke Black
Luke Black is a Serbian singer-songwriter who represented his country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023, the world’s largest live music event, with an audience of over 160 million. Performing hi…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Women warriors
n the last few decades western militaries have been training more women for combat than ever, yet female recruitment and retention is stalling. But with warfare changing, new technologies and new thr…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Fifth Floor: The Russian grandma who went to jail
Natalya Filonova is a former kindergarten teacher, a mother, a grandmother. But she’s also an activist and in 2022 she was arrested during a demonstration against the war in Ukraine. Nina Nazarova fr…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
BBC OS Conversations: Inside Gaza
After 19 months of war, Israel says it is preparing to expand its military campaign in Gaza. The aim is to defeat and dismantle Hamas, regarded as a terrorist organisation by many countries and bring…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Heart and Soul: Praying for healing?
Throughout his life as a theologian, Christian minister and cosmologist, Prof David Wilkinson has been asking - what does God do when I pray? The question became acutely personal after his wife, Alis…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Educating Nigeria
Every Nigerian child has the constitutional right to free and compulsory primary education, and free secondary education, yet there remains a huge gap between that law and the reality. One in every f…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
The TikTokers inside an election fire-storm
In the days before the presidential elections, influencers watched comments and content pour across TikTok in support of obscure far-right independent candidate Calin Georgescu. Georgescu’s victory w…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago