What else could the UK government spend its £4.2 billion Brexit contingency fund on?

Dec 24, 2018 08:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy

The cabinet has stepped up contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit, with departments across Whitehall charged with making this a priority. Although all indications are that there is no majority in parliament for leaving...

We discovered more about the honeybee 'wake-up call' — and it could help save them

Dec 24, 2018 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Worldwide honeybee populations are in peril and its a dire situation for humans. Threats from climate change, toxic pesticides, and disease have all contributed to a steep honeybee population decline since 2006. And as a...

What if consciousness is just a product of our nonconcious brain?

Dec 24, 2018 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

As the very word used to describe it has been worn smooth by a million tongues, consciousness is a fertile topic for confusion. We all know what it is to be conscious. It is, basically, being aware of and responding to the...

How Trump and Brexit united Europe

Dec 24, 2018 08:07 am UTC| Insights & Views

Europeans across the English Channel are nervously watching Britains debate over Brexit, fearful of what the United Kingdoms divorce from the European Union will mean for their decades-old economic and political...

UK to remain a hostile environment for immigration under nebulous new post-Brexit policy

Dec 24, 2018 08:06 am UTC| Insights & Views

As the UK heads to war with itself, the country got an early Christmas gift in the form of a long-awaited white paper on immigration. Touted by home secretary Sajid Javid as the biggest change to our immigration system in...

Obsessed with being busy? A historical perspective may help you out

Dec 24, 2018 08:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Addiction to being busy is popularly portrayed as a toxic feature of modernity. The acceleration of everyday life is nostalgically compared to the past, when life was supposedly simpler. Yet the question of how best to...

Could the increase in e-cigarette use by teens be colored by flavor?

Dec 24, 2018 08:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

An upsurge in e-cigarette use among middle and high school students occurred nationally between 2011 and 2018, with nearly 21 of every 100 high school students surveyed reporting e-cigarette use in the past 30 days,...