The stark truth about UK government climate action: there is no one in charge

Jul 13, 2019 06:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The UKs climate change targets are world-leading. Yet there is no clear plan in place to achieve them. That is the stark message of a new progress report from the governments official advisers, the Committee on Climate...

Understanding dog personalities can help prevent attacks

Jul 13, 2019 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

The news of a fatal dog-bite incident in Melbourne last night has shocked dog lovers around the country. A 61 year old man was dead by the time police arrived at the property in Mill Park; his 58 year old wife is in...

'Guaranteed to lose money': welcome to the bizarro world of negative interest rates

Jul 13, 2019 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

In 1960 DC Comics introduced the Bizarro planet of Htrae. Created with a duplicating ray, the planets inhabitants are all imperfect versions of Superman and Lois Lane, doing opposite of all Earthly things. Adventure...

What Love Island can tell us about the history of love

Jul 13, 2019 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Last summer, the apparently scandalous statistic that more young people applied for the reality TV series Love Island than applied for Oxbridge rippled through the commentariat, eventually featuring in Prime Ministers...

BA's record fine could help make the public take data security more seriously

Jul 13, 2019 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

British Airways (BA) has received a record fine of 183m after details of around 500,000 of its customers were stolen in a data breach in summer 2018. The fine was possible thanks to new rules introduced last year by the...

Northern Ireland: as Marching season begins, a new political force is on the rise

Jul 13, 2019 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views

There was a worrying increase in violence during the Protestant Orange marches of July 2018, a traditional flashpoint between Northern Irelands Nationalist and Unionist communities. The marches commemorate the victory of...

Our brain-computer interfacing technology uses music to make people happy

Jul 13, 2019 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Whether its the music that was playing on the radio when you met your partner or the first song your baby daughter smiled to, for many of us, music is a core part of life. And its no wonder there is considerable...