The devastating Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka have left over 290 people dead, and the country in shock. The government has responded by banning social media and messaging apps, ostensibly to stop the spread of misinformation, but Meera Selva argues that this both restricts access to key facts in a country with a beleaguered press and dismantles a crucial interface between the island’s different groups. We also take a closer look at Sri Lanka’s Christian and Muslim minorities.

When you think of inner-city teenagers, what springs to mind? For many, it’s hoodies, video games – and probably hating Shakespeare. But on the Bard’s alleged birthday, new research shows that their real attitudes are far more positive, blowing away the stereotypes. Cathy Baldwin explains.

If you want to give up cigarettes, surely you need to use less, rather than more, nicotine. Well, not necessarily, say Nicola Lindson and Jamie Hartmann-Boyce. If you’re using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), a new review of the evidence suggests that using two forms of NRT may be better than one, that you should start using it before you quit smoking, and that using higher doses may help some people.

Banana plants across Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa are being ravaged by an infection called Panama disease. In a long read for our in depth series on the genetic history of bananas and the diseases they’ve faced, Stuart Thompson looks at the options now available to save the banana from extinction.

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