El Chapo trial shows why a wall won't stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border

Jan 20, 2019 09:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera has exposed just how powerful Mexicos cartels really are. The trial has now run for two months. On Jan. 15, a Colombian drug trafficker who...

It's time for a new way to regulate social media platforms

Jan 20, 2019 09:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

When it came to our online lives, 2018 was revealing in its dysfunction. The just-expired years parade of scandals at Facebook alone was relentless Cambridge Analytica, its inflation of video-viewing stats that have...

Recycling is not enough. Zero-packaging stores show we can kick our plastic addiction

Jan 20, 2019 09:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

Wrapped, sealed, boxed, cling-filmed and vacuum packed. We have become used to consumables being packaged in every way imaginable. The history of packaging goes back to the first human settlements. First leaves, gourds...

How realistic are China's plans to build a research station on the Moon?

Jan 20, 2019 09:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

The world is still celebrating the historic landing of Chinas Change-4 on the dark side of the moon on January 3. This week, China announced its plans to follow up with three more lunar missions, laying the groundwork for...

How to feed a growing population healthy food without ruining the planet

Jan 20, 2019 09:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

If were serious about feeding the worlds growing population healthy food, and not ruining the planet, we need to get used to a new style of eating. This includes cutting our Western meat and sugar intakes by around 50%,...

Why Antarctica's sea ice cover is so low (and no, it's not just about climate change)

Jan 20, 2019 09:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Sea ice cover in Antarctica shrank rapidly to a record low in late 2016 and has remained well below average. But whats behind this dramatic melting and low ice cover since? Our two articles published earlier this month...

Physical activity programmes in schools aren't working – here's why

Jan 20, 2019 09:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

A third of children in the UK are overweight or obese by the time they reach primary school. Many other countries are facing the same issue, with a tenfold increase in the worldwide prevalence of childhood obesity over the...