It's time for the 'science of sensibility' to return

Jun 28, 2016 20:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

What is beauty in art? Why can art move us emotionally? How do our minds and bodies respond to art? These and other questions, some linked to what we now call aesthetics, occupied some of the greatest minds of the...

Does a planet need plate tectonics to develop life?

Jun 28, 2016 20:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature Science

Plate tectonics may be a phase in the evolution of planets that has implications for the habitability of exoplanets, according to new research published this month in the journal Physics of the Earth and Planetary...

Briferendum Series

What Brexit means for UK science: a view from the coalface

Jun 26, 2016 19:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Economy

Science, and geoscience in particular, is an international activity that benefits from cooperation and collaboration. The Brexit vote is a wake up call, not just for the UK but more widely, and it underlines how so many...

Climate Change Series

How science can genetically strengthen endangered plants and agriculture

Jun 23, 2016 18:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Nature

As the human population swells and in the face of a changing and unpredictable climate the demand for natural resources increases. This leads to distressing rates of deforestation to prepare land for agriculture,...

Climate Change Series

Can we harness bacteria to help clean up future oil spills?

Jun 22, 2016 12:46 pm UTC| Science Nature

In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released an estimated 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico the largest offshore spill in U.S. history. The spill caused widespread damage to marine species, fisheries...

How to win the Euros – with a little help from neuroscience

Jun 16, 2016 16:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Sports

It cant be easy trying to pick a team for a huge football tournament like the Euros, carrying the hopes of an entire nation. Football managers may have great skill and intuition, but it is, after all, not an exact science....

Second detection heralds the era of gravitational wave astronomy

Jun 16, 2016 06:31 am UTC| Science

Earlier this year, a team of over 1,000 scientists from across the globe announced the first discovery of gravitational waves and the first ever observation of colliding black holes. That same team has now published a...