Explainer: what any country can and can't do in Antarctica, in the name of science
Oct 31, 2018 13:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Antarctica is owned by no one, but there are plenty of countries interested in this frozen island continent at the bottom of the Earth. While there are some regulations on who can do what there, scientific research has...
We've spotted signs of collisions that may finally help us prove that supermassive black holes exist
Oct 29, 2018 19:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Observations of nature tend to throw up unexpected results and new mysteries whether youre investigating the rain forest or outer space. When radio astronomy took off in the 1950s, we had no idea that it would lead to the...
How to read and learn from scientific literature, even if you're not an expert
Oct 29, 2018 19:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Reading scientific literature is not for the faint-hearted. Its dense, and very often full of foreign terms and ideas. It also assumes a basic understanding of the discipline in question. I cant imagine that many people...
Curious Kids: Is there anything hotter than the Sun?
Oct 29, 2018 19:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Curious Kids is a series for children, where we ask experts to answer questions from kids. All questions are welcome: find out how to enter at the bottom. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production...
Calculating stillbirth risk is a rudimentary science – here's how to move forward
Oct 28, 2018 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Stillbirth is a devastating complication of pregnancy that affects millions of women globally each year. It is defined as a baby born showing no signs of life where delivery occurred at or after six months (24 weeks) of...
Meat grown from cells: companies clamour to put it on your plate
Oct 28, 2018 12:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Could this be the year that meat grown in vats rather than taken from animals reaches our plates? In the summer of 2017, San Francisco-based food company Just (formerly Hampton Creek), announced plans to put meat grown in...
DNA sequencing is inadvertantly exacerbating social biases and inequalities
Oct 28, 2018 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
At the cutting edge of modern science, DNA sequencing promises to transform many aspects of human life. Its already playing a significant role in law enforcement, as well as medical and historical research. But theres a...
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