Homicide is declining around the world – but why?

Nov 05, 2019 02:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Americans are currently living in one of the lowest crime periods ever and so are many people in the rest of the world. Following decades of increasing crime during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, U.S. homicide rates declined...

Why do young people join gangs? Members explain the appeal of risk taking

Nov 05, 2019 02:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

As the rate of knife crime continues to rise, there have been many attempts to investigate why some young people resort to potentially fatal violence: from problems at home, to a lack of opportunity or simply a desire to...

What 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat tells us about the genetics of our daily bread

Nov 05, 2019 02:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Human societies need food and that often means wheat, which was first cultivated more than 12,000 years ago. Today, around one in five calories consumed by humans is from wheat. Over this time, humans have moved wheat...

Climate Change Series

Climate crisis: the countryside could be our greatest ally – if we can reform farming

Nov 05, 2019 02:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Around 20% of the UKs farms account for 80% of the countrys total food production, and they do this on about half of all the farmed land there is. At least 80% of farms in the UK dont produce very much at all. In...

African countries can't industrialise? Yes, they can

Nov 05, 2019 02:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Narratives are essential. Humans are, after all, helpless story junkies. Business and economic success depend much more than is commonly acknowledged on getting the narrative right. And if there is a narrative where...

UK election: who is standing down as an MP and will it change the campaign?

Nov 05, 2019 02:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The days leading up to the 2019 general election campaign have brought numerous announcements of MPs deciding to leave parliament instead of contesting their seat. These include a significant number of people who are, or...

Virgin Galactic goes public and leads space tourism race

Nov 05, 2019 02:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

Richard Branson rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on October 28 as Virgin Galactic became the first commercial spaceflight company to list on the stock market. It was valued at more than US$1 billion...