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Many people are overwhelmed by the fast-paced evolution of mass communication in a world increasingly shaped by the internet and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet ideas have not always circulated ...

Every time a truly era-defining technology arrives, it is greeted by a "Doomsday" narrative. When personal computers first entered the office, people were certain that secretaries and clerks were ...

As an expert on personality disorders, people often ask me about psychopathy. It seems everybody has had an ex, a boss, a neighbour or a relative who they suspect has traits of it. People are ...

Nathan Schactman's new IARC's Precautionary Science: How the WHO Cancer Research Agency Misinforms Regulation and Litigation is a wonderful brief on how the International Agency for Research on ...

We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan. This involved using satellite aerial imagery to systematically and painstakingly ...

Meaningfully boosting healthspan - the years one lives in good health, free of disease and disability - isn't rocket science. A study published earlier this month in the Journal of the American ...

As a mathematician--and given the recent buzz over UFO disclosures--I find myself entertained by a specific hypothetical: If a silver saucer crewed by extraterrestrials ever touched down, then what ...

Designing a series of sweetener trials seemed straightforward enough to us as behavioural scientists who specialise in human appetite and obesity. The plan was simple: replace the added sugar in a ...

The State Department ought to revoke Charles Lieber's passport. He has gone to work for China and his work poses a danger to the United States. Our government was lax when it let Lieber leave the ...

Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into near-glacial conditions. Sea ice expanded across the North ...