A fierce debate has been taking place over reforms to the Gender Recognition Act in the UK, which would allow people who self-identify as women to be legally treated as such without medical certification. Kathleen Stock opposes the change, arguing that it’s another example of society expecting women to accommodate others without acknowledging the potential negative consequences for them.

Our immune system is pretty good at fighting cancer, except when tumours cause “brakes” in the system to malfunction and they become harder to kill. For their landmark discovery of how these brakes work, James Allison and Tasuku Honjo have won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Sheena Cruickshank writes about their work, which has led to breakthroughs in cancer treatment.

It is a frequent refrain that body positive material “glorifies obesity” and promotes an unhealthy lifestyle, most recently peppering commentary about a recent Cosmopolitan magazine cover featuring plus-size model Tess Holliday. But celebrating a fat body is not the same thing as promoting unhealthy practices, writes Jamie Khoo. She argues that it is fat stigma that drives the negative assumptions as health does not always look the same in everyone.

Fifty years ago, the first Boeing 747 rolled out for service, becoming the first jumbo jet and the largest civilian carrier in the world. Janet Bednarek charts the aircraft’s history, including how it was taken from idea to air in just 16 months.

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