Science & Health
Multiverse: Betting on what’s beyond the horizon
Martin Rees
19/03/2023
It’s easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed ...
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How amateur scientists are making important discoveries
Mark Lorch
05/03/2023
What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a ...
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The future role of human judgement
Jack Dikian
03/03/2023
There is an old Chinese curse, “May you live in an interesting age.” It continues: “They are times of danger ...
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Why I wrote a book on circumcision
Jonathan Meddings
20/02/2023
I’ve spent the last 10 years researching and writing a book on circumcision. The first question most people ask me ...
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The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research
Virginia Barbour
09/02/2023
Researchers can’t progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and their fees ...
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Success without substance
Adrian Barnett
29/01/2023
New Zealander Nigel Richards has won the French Scrabble championship twice. What’s more remarkable than double wins is that Nigel doesn’t ...
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In defence of nudging
Meg Elkins
07/01/2023
Nudging – the idea that simple changes to how a choice is presented can lead people to make better decisions ...
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Behavioural science and its complications
Noel Turnbull
27/12/2022
Nudge theory offered a wonderful alternative future in which governments could nudge people to do the right thing and thereby ...
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Science experiments at school can be fun, inspiring and safe
Nathan Kilah
28/11/2022
To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration from ...
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From ‘Blind Watchmaker’ to seeing watchmakers
David James
26/11/2022
For most of the first 15 years of the 21st century, there was a fierce debate between rationalist supporters of ...
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How the world’s fossil fuel addiction compromises our health
Celia McMichael
14/11/2022
Climate change threatens to undermine the health of people around the world, with more intense and frequent extreme weather events, ...
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New ‘ethics guidance’ puts science publishing under the microscope
Cordelia Fine
20/10/2022
The British journal Nature was founded in 1869 and is one of the world’s most influential and prestigious outlets for ...
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