SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
The science of rainbows inspires new miniature laser technology
Mirrors are the technology behind modern lasers. New research shows that lasers can be made inside water droplets, using the reflective properties of water, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
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Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
EVERY four years, each Olympic flame starts its life in a parabolic mirror in Greece, lit by reflection of the sun.
The curved sides of the mirror reflect light to the same point, intensifying the light so brightly that it can cause the torch to catch alight.
The same phenomenon was responsible when the concave face of a London skyscraper, nicknamed the “Walkie-Talkie,” concentrated the sun’s heat onto a luxury car parked below, melting parts of its metal and glass exterior.
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