Bomb scares: can you judge a threat from the voice on the phone?
May 27, 2016 15:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
This week, 85 schools across the UK and US received threatening phone calls from anonymous callers who said that there were bombs inside school buildings. One school in Cambridgeshire was told by the caller that the bomb...
Energy crops have been a major flop with farmers – here's why
May 27, 2016 15:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Whatever happened to energy crops? A decade ago, the UK authorities confidently expected farmers to devote swaths of land to growing the likes of short-rotation willow and poplar and perennial grasses. These were to help...
Higher oil prices could see return of inflationary pressures to Asia
May 27, 2016 11:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
In emerging Asia, oil prices constitute a significant proportion of production costs for many items with large weights in the CPI baskets. Inflationary pressures are set to return to Asia as oil and food prices edge...
Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil
May 27, 2016 09:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Brazil is in the midst of its worst political crisis since the 1960s and possibly its most severe economic downturn in the last 100 years. The economy will not and cannot improve until the country emerges from the...
Is a tuition-free policy enough to ensure college success?
May 27, 2016 08:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Across the U.S., many soon-to-be high school graduates are excited to begin college. Over the past decades, rates of college enrollment have increased. In 1950, only 16 percent of young people had at least some college...
Climate change, tourism and the Great Barrier Reef: what we know
May 27, 2016 08:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The removal of an entire section on the Great Barrier Reef from an international report on World Heritage and climate change has been justified by the Australian government because of the impact on tourism. The Guardian...
Patients with 'exceptional responses' to treatment could hold secret to new cancer cures
May 27, 2016 08:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Most cancer specialists indeed, most doctors have treated patients who respond to treatment in unexpected ways. Known as exceptional responders, the experiences of these patients and their doctors are generally relegated...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects