Fifteen people from various backgrounds have recently left a cave in south-west France after 40 days underground.
The experiment was designed to see how the absence of clocks, daylight and external communications would affect the participants’ sense of time.
Project director Christian Clot and Marina Lançon, one of the volunteers in the study, told BBC World News about their experience.
Everyone in the Simon family contracted Covid-19, but nine-year-old daughter Makenna went to hospital.
The first emergency international assistance aimed at helping stem India’s devastating coronavirus surge arrived in India on Tuesday. But while this was a positive move, solidarity among countries needs to be a continuous thing and not just in times of crisis, the World Health Organization’s Dr Margaret Harris told BBC World News. “It would be…
Ivermectin was called a Covid “miracle” drug, championed by vaccine opponents, but research has shown that more than a third of 26 major trials of the drug for use on Covid have serious errors or signs of potential fraud. Dr Kyle Sheldrick, of the University of New South Wales, who was one of the group…
Australia is one of the countries already seeing an increase in the number of extremely hot days because of climate change, with places like Sydney experiencing temperatures around 50C. The intense heat has led to unusually strong bushfires and some indigenous species dying en masse. As the BBC’s Life at 50 degrees season continues, this…
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect early on Friday. Both Israel and Hamas have claimed victory in the recent conflict. But it may prove “difficult” for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to label the military operation a political success, says former Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon. It was a case of…
The charity Save the Children is calling for an immediate de-escalation of the Israel-Gaza conflict. In Jerusalem Save the Children’s Jason Lee told BBC World News: “In every conflict or escalation today we see that children are disproportionately affected… “We have numbers of children being killed, maimed. This cycle will continue unless we take immediate…
