Should NSA and Cyber Command have separate leadership?
Oct 05, 2016 12:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The National Security Agency is the nations digital spying organization. U.S. Cyber Command is a military unit focused on cyberwarfare. Does it make sense for one person to lead them both at the same time? That has been...
Biofuels turn out to be a climate mistake – here's why
Oct 05, 2016 12:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Ever since the 1973 oil embargo, U.S. energy policy has sought to replace petroleum-based transportation fuels with alternatives. One prominent option is using biofuels, such as ethanol in place of gasoline and biodiesel...
Latest IMF forecast paints a bleak picture for global growth
Oct 05, 2016 12:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The International Monetary Fund has published its latest report on the future prospects for the worlds economies. The forecasts paint a subdued picture, predicting global Gross Domestic Product to rise by 3.1% this year...
Even nurses aren't immune to the stigma of suicide
Oct 05, 2016 12:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
In England, one person dies every two hours as a result of suicide. And it is the leading cause of death for young people, both male and female, in the UK every year around 1,600 children and young people aged ten to 34...
If there was a Nobel silver medal, I'd award it to Jeffrey Gordon and our gut microbes
Oct 05, 2016 12:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
A hot tip for this years Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was Jeffrey Gordon. (In case you missed it, the prize went to Yoshinori Ohsumi.) Over the past 15 years, Gordon has progressed an obscure study of boring gut...
Back to the 19th century: how language is being used to mark national borders
Oct 05, 2016 12:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views
According to a series of newspapers, immigrants will apparently change the English language in Britain beyond repair over the next 50 years. The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express have all run alarming...
Before Nobels: Gifts to and from rich patrons were early science's currency
Oct 05, 2016 11:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
While the Nobel Prizes are 115 years old, rewards for scientific achievement have been around much longer. As early as the 17th century, at the very origins of modern experimental science, promoters of science realized the...
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