Dependence, decrepitude and death: how long is too long a life?
Feb 18, 2016 12:57 pm UTC| Life
In 2100, I will be 117 years old, and my younger sisters will be 112 and 107. According to the Cambridge academic, Peter Laslett, we can now live to such ages, but those of us who do will be experiencing the fourth age, an...
The 'c-word' may be the last swearing taboo, but doesn't shock like it used to
Feb 18, 2016 04:40 am UTC| Life
This article contains explicit language. The word cunt continues to be increasingly prevalent in our consumption of popular culture. So what is it about this word and its ability to grab our attention? Does it still...
Making commercial surrogacy illegal only makes aspiring parents go elsewhere
Feb 18, 2016 04:14 am UTC| Life
When many people hear the word surrogacy their immediate reaction is to think of the plight of Baby Gammy, abandoned in Thailand by his intended parents. Yet stories like this do not reflect the experience of hundreds...
A grown-up conversation about children and porn online starts here
Feb 17, 2016 16:03 pm UTC| Life
The Conservative government has launched the latest salvo in its manifesto pledge to prevent children from accessing pornography online, proposing that pornography websites would have to require age verification for...
Are 'frolleagues' replacing our friends?
Feb 17, 2016 14:00 pm UTC| Life
Weve been warned about the dangers of frolleagues, the friends we have at work that often fill the void left by having too little time for an external social life. As far back as 2008, Linkedin claimed that: 47% of the UKs...
Cheating is more society's problem than an affair of the heart
Feb 17, 2016 13:56 pm UTC| Life
When it comes to love, cheating and divorce, matters are never just of the heart. In a bid to understand the love lives of humans, scientists have turned to the romantic relations of birds since the family life of many...
How greedy landlords are fuelling a homelessness crisis
Feb 15, 2016 09:43 am UTC| Life
When it comes to homelessness, sleeping rough in a shop doorway is just the start of the problem. From young people living with parents because of unaffordable rents, families sleeping in homeless hostels, or couples...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects