Nuclear power safer is set to get a lot safer (and cheaper) – here's why
Apr 11, 2017 13:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
High-profile disasters such as Chernobyl and Fukushima have given nuclear power a bad name. Despite 60 years of nuclear generation without major accidents in many countries including Britain and France, many people have...
Here's how Doctor Who's time machine measures up with real instruments of space and time
Apr 11, 2017 13:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Theres no denying that weve seen some absolutely staggering accomplishments in physics in the past year or so, particularly in our ability to measure space and time with unprecedented levels of detail. But being a lifelong...
Archaeological finds prove that fear of the walking dead was very real to medieval minds
Apr 11, 2017 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Zombies have long been an object of fascination: horror film director George Romero has championed the zombie film since Night of the Living Dead almost 50 years ago, and recent revivals have meant that talk of the zombie...
Apr 11, 2017 13:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Fake news has become an important focus for news foundations, democratic interest groups and various journalism academics and researchers, following claims that the US presidential elections may have been influenced by...
Doctor Who takes an ethical stance towards alien life -- so why isn't he vegan?
Apr 11, 2017 13:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Since the Doctor Who series was rebooted in 2005 the television show has consistently presented the Doctor as a moral leader, a key element of which is his respectful relationship with other species. The Doctor expresses...
Five lessons Brexit negotiators should take from the League of Nations
Apr 11, 2017 13:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Brexit has few precedents in international history. Parallels have been drawn to Greenlands 1985 European Community withdrawal, and Burundi and Gambia abandoning International Criminal Court membership. Yet, the UKs...
China's leaders and citizens alike are losing patience with North Korea
Apr 11, 2017 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views
China is generally considered the only major ally of North Korea, a regime viewed around the world as cruel, evil, and backward. But whatever the government in Beijing might think of its troublesome neighbour on the other...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects