Indonesia suffered mounting devastation this week following an earthquake, tsunami and now a volcanic eruption. At least 1,350 have already died and blame is increasingly falling on the country’s tsunami early warning system. Sue Dawson asks why there has been such a large loss of life, and Jonatan Lassa gives an in depth look at the problems with the warning technology. Meanwhile, Anja Scheffers explains why Indonesia suffers from such powerful tsunamis in the first place.

If the past few weeks have left you confused about what’s happening with Brexit, you’re not alone. What happens if parliament votes down the government’s deal? And how would a people’s vote really work? And what’s John Milton got to do with it all?

Humanity’s conception of bacteria has been largely shaped by the images of them that are available to us – images that have, thanks to the market for antibacterial cleaning products, been shaped by advertising. And over the last 170 years advertising has consistently and predictably portrayed bacteria as cute, or sexually deviant. The consequences of this legacy, Norah Campbell and Cormac Deane argue, are worrying.

And from our South African colleagues comes a look at the ethical issues being created by the controversial programme to tackle the country’s dire medical donor shortage by transplanting organs from HIV+ patients.

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