How 'story maps' redraw the world using people's real-life experiences
Aug 13, 2018 13:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Maps are an important part of our everyday lives. We use them for driving directions, to look up restaurants or stores and parse election data. We can even use smartphone maps to locate friends when theyre out on the...
Profit, not free speech, governs media companies' decisions on controversy
Aug 13, 2018 13:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
For decades, U.S. media companies have limited the content theyve offered based on whats good for business. The decisions by Apple, Spotify, Facebook and YouTube to remove content from commentator Alex Jones and his...
Apple's $1 trillion value doesn't mean it's the 'biggest' company
Aug 13, 2018 13:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
On Aug. 2, Apple became the first U.S. public corporation to achieve a US$1 trillion valuation, making it the largest company in the world by one measure at least. A New York Times article proclaimed that this...
Ageing in human cells successfully reversed in the lab
Aug 13, 2018 13:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The ability to reverse ageing is something many people would hope to see in their lifetime. This is still a long way from reality, but in our latest experiment, we have reversed the ageing of human cells, which could...
Burqa comments like Boris Johnson's are pushing Muslims to reassert their identity
Aug 13, 2018 13:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Boris Johnsons inflammatory remarks about women who wear the burqa have sparked outrage and fierce debate on an issue that was already highly emotive. Since the European Union referendum, community relations between...
Hothouse Earth: seven things you can do to stop it
Aug 13, 2018 13:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If global temperatures are allowed to rise by 2℃, we face creating a Hothouse Earth that would shift the planet to an irreversible state, a recent research paper warns. This has provoked a global frenzy in social, news and...
Frontal lobe paradox: where people have brain damage but don't know it
Aug 13, 2018 13:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Humans have big brains and our frontal lobes, just behind the forehead, are particularly huge. Injuries to this part of the brain often happen after blows to the head or a stroke. Paradoxically, some people with frontal...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects