When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long...
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Parasites: What Causes Some Species to Evolve to Exploit Others?
If you saw the first episode of David Attenborough’s new BBC series Perfect Planet, you will have seen the astounding bloodsucking behaviour of the vampire finches. These small birds exist only...
Trump is Out, But US Evangelicalism Remains Alive and Well in...
On the day before the 2020 US presidential election, Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, the leader of the African Christian Democratic Party in South Africa, tweeted: Please pray… for President...
Explainer: Why is the South China Sea Such a Hotly Contested...
In the past week, both the US and Australia rejected large parts of China’s extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea, as well as territorial claims by any state to...
315 Nuclear Bombs and Ongoing Suffering: the Shameful History of...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware this article contains the name of a deceased person. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons received its 50th ratification...
Wormholes May be Lurking in the Universe – and New Studies are...
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time. But it also left us with some deep mysteries...
How to Tell if Your Dog is a Genius
Anyone who has lived with a dog will know their capacity for learning the meaning of words, even ones you don’t want them to know. How many times have you had to spell the words “walk” or “dinner” in...
News UK TV and GB News: New Channels Stoke Fears of More...
The imminent arrival of two new current affairs channels is fuelling heated debate about the future direction of broadcast journalism in the UK. GB News is chaired by former newspaper editor and BBC...
Is Being European a White Identity? Brussels Needs Deep...
Like so many organisations, the European Parliament recently declared “Black Lives Matter” in a statement that condemned racism. And, like in so many other parts of the world, people in...
Superbugs Have an Arsenal of Defences — But We’ve Found a New...
Researchers have not discovered any new antibiotics in decades. But our new research, published today in Nature Microbiology, has found a way to give a second wind to the antibiotics we do have...
Solar Panels Capture More Sunlight With Capsaicin – The...
Here’s some news hot off the press. Researchers have found a secret ingredient for making solar panels that absorb the sun’s energy more efficiently. Depending on what you like to eat...
How to Get People From Earth to Mars and Safely Back Again
There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched. The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work together intimately on missions to the International...
We Found Algae-Farming Fish that Domesticate Tiny Shrimp to Help...
Humans are experts at domesticating other species and our world would be unrecognisable without it. There would be no cities, no supermarkets, and no pets. Domestication is a special kind of...
The World’s Oldest Story? Astronomers Say Global Myths about...
In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades or the “seven sisters”. Look carefully and you will probably count six stars. So why do we say there are seven of...
Major New Study Unveils Complexity and Vast Diversity of...
Africa is the cradle of humankind. All humans are descendants from this common pool of ancestors. Africa and its multitude of ethnolinguistic groups are therefore fundamental to learning more about...
What if the World Was One Country? A Psychologist on Why We Need...
There are countless different species on the surface of this planet. One of these is the human race, which has over seven billion members. In one sense, there are no nations, just groups of humans...
How Many People will Migrate due to Rising Sea Levels? Our Best...
An article in 2011 shocked many by suggesting that up to 187 million people could be forced to leave their homes as a result of two metres of sea-level rise by 2100. Almost a decade on, some of...
How Self-proclaimed ‘Prophets’ from a Growing Christian Movement...
In addition to symbols of white supremacy, many of the rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 carried signs bearing religious messages, such as “Jesus Saves” and “In God We Trust” while others chanted...
Six Space Missions to Look Forward to in 2021
Space exploration achieved several notable firsts in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, including commercial human spaceflight and returning samples of an asteroid to Earth. The coming year is...
The End of Golden Dawn: Has Greece Shown us How to Deal with Neo...
When a wave of right-wing extremism hit Greece in 2012, few would have predicted that Golden Dawn, one of the groups involved, would grow to become the third-largest party in the Greek parliament...