Five amazing ultrasound inventions set to change the world (and not a pregnancy scan in sight)
May 13, 2017 03:27 am UTC| Science
Ultrasound can do a whole lot more than create images of unborn babies. Since it first became a near-indispensable medical tool in the 1930s, technology that produces sound waves so high-pitched that humans cant hear them...
Forcing consensus is bad for science and society
May 12, 2017 10:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
The March for Science that took place in cities around the world on April 22 was intended to speak for science, defending evidence-based policies, the strength of peer-reviewed facts and government-funded research. The...
Distrust of experts happens when we forget they are human beings
May 12, 2017 06:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
In 2016, conservative, pro-brexit, British politician Michael Gove announced that people in England …have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it...
Gene drives may cause a revolution, but safeguards and public engagement are needed
May 07, 2017 09:14 am UTC| Science
A gene drive occurs when a specific gene is spread at an enhanced rate through an animal or plant population. Its something that happens in nature. Across the world, weve already seen examples of natural gene drives...
Trump Admin Purged EPA Site Of Climate Change Data, Scientists Speak Out
May 02, 2017 08:38 am UTC| Science Politics
Its well-known at this point that Donald Trump and the people that he surrounds himself with are prominent deniers of man-made climate change. The recent purging of the Environmental Protection Agencys website of any...
Japanese space agency's mission aims to uncover how moons of Mars formed
May 01, 2017 14:26 pm UTC| Science
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced a mission to visit the two moons of Mars and return a rock sample to Earth. Its a plan to uncover both the mystery of the moons creation and, perhaps, how life...
Neurosurgeon To Perform Brain Transplant, Employs Extremely Fringe Science
May 01, 2017 07:25 am UTC| Science
In the current state of medical science, its possible to transplant practically every part of the human body with one exception; the brain. However, one Italian brain surgeon is committed to actually doing this by taking...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight