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The prevailing sensation while watching El Chavo del Ocho is to wonder how this thing ever got made in the first place. It’s a low-budget Mexican sitcom that ran from the 70s to the 90s, centred on an eight-year-old orphan who lives in a barrel in an apartment complex. The boy is played by Roberto … Read more

Build it and they will come – but you should be aware that you will be left with significant debt repayments, an element of the story to which Kevin Costner took a characteristically cavalier attitude. Which may be why Field of Dreams was about building a baseball stadium in Iowa for Shoeless Joe Jackson and … Read more

It was 12 years ago that England came here chasing the grand slam. It was Stuart Lancaster’s second Six Nations in charge and though an unconvincing home victory over Italy had come the week before, hopes were high that England could seal a first clean sweep since 2003. They ended up being beaten so emphatically, … Read more

A time when the clubs were old Third Division mainstays may be a distant, chintzy memory now both are upwardly mobile, model organisations but Bournemouth have still not beaten Brentford in the Premier League. For a club with now very different horizons, this was a most costly defeat. If Thomas Frank’s hopes of taking his … Read more

Did you know that mortality rates from major operations were slashed from around 40% in the second half of the 19th Century, to less than 3% by the end of the first decade of the 20th Century? Current estimates of global mortality rate following major surgery still hovers around 1-4%, suggesting that the vast changes … Read more

There is no cauldron quite like Cardiff on a big match day. On this occasion, though, it was England who ran white hot on the final day of this see-sawing Six Nations season to secure a record-breaking 10-try demolition job, sealed by two eye-catching tries on his debut from the 20-year-old Northampton flanker Henry Pollock. … Read more

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Preamble After the absolute powdering of Wales by England in Cardiff we arrive at the final game of the tournament with a simple ask for France: win the game and take the trophy in front of a home crowd. The performances … Read more

The importance of preserving old grasslands as reservoirs of biodiversity, even if it is just as ski slopes, has become clear. Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialised pollinators are slow to return. It takes 75 years of continuous management for the plant diversity in recovered grasslands … Read more

A gender row involving two boxers at the Paris 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign and had little to do with reality, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, Thomas Bach, said on Saturday. Bach, who is stepping down in June after 12 years in charge of the biggest job in … Read more

Environmental conditions are primarily responsible for the survival of the bacteria | Photo Credit: Dr. Todd Parker Globally, research on climate/environmentally driven infectious diseases has been largely biased towards vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue, etc. Melioidosis is a bacterial infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, and is primarily acquired by inoculation, inhalation and/or ingestion of soil- and … Read more