Australia's bushfires could drive more than 700 animal species to extinction

Jan 14, 2020 23:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

The scale and speed of the current bushfire crisis has caught many people off-guard, including biodiversity scientists. People are scrambling to estimate the long-term effects. It is certain that many animal species will...

Some say we've seen bushfires worse than this before. But they're ignoring a few key facts

Jan 14, 2020 23:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Every time a weather extreme occurs, some people quickly jump in to say weve been through it all before: that worse events have happened in the past, or its just part of natural climate variability. The recent bushfire...

A new recycling technique breaks down old tires into reusable materials

Jan 14, 2020 23:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Approximately three billion automobile tires were produced worldwide in 2019 alone. Automobile tires are the classic example of a high-volume product derived from non-renewable petroleum resources that is designed for...

At a performance of The White Album, I found the community I needed in a time of crisis

Jan 14, 2020 23:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion, The White Album Theatre can be many things. It can provide a catalyst to action, help us make sense of the world, make us feel part of a broader human...

Matching Vietnamese brides with Chinese men, marriage brokers find good business – and sometimes love

Jan 14, 2020 01:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

China has 24 million more men than women of marriageable age, putting some bachelors in a tough spot. In rural areas of China, three decades of sex-selective abortions under the one-child policy, which ended in 2015,...

Global Geopolitics Series

How real is the threat of cyberwar between Iran and the US?

Jan 14, 2020 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

The world shook at the news in early January that a US drone strike had killed Irans top military general, Qassem Soleimani, outside Baghdads airport. According to the Pentagon, the attack was conducted as a decisive...

3D printing of body parts is coming fast – but regulations are not ready

Jan 14, 2020 01:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

In the last few years, the use of 3D printing has exploded in medicine. Engineers and medical professionals now routinely 3D print prosthetic hands and surgical tools. But 3D printing has only just begun to transform the...