Including population control in climate policy risks human tragedy
16 August 2018
Making population issues part of the world's efforts to avert climate change could cause human rights abuses including forced sterilisation, says Ian Angus
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It's time to embrace video games as an Olympic sport
16 August 2018
They may compete from the comfort of a chair, but video gamers are in the mix at this year's Asian games and are on track for Olympic stardom, says Mark Zastrow
An AI apocalypse isn't the problem – technology-driven inequality is
14 November 2018
Fears of an artificial intelligence apocalypse make the news, but it's AI-fuelled inequality we should worry about, says Andrew Simms
People calling Ryan Gosling's First Man unpatriotic are stuck in 1969
4 September 2018
A blockbuster Neil Armstrong biopic fails to show the US flag being planted on the moon, angering some people. They're living in the past, say Nicholas Borroz and Egemen Bezci
Is research in jails the way to end wars over dietary guidance?
14 June 2018
US researchers say studies in prisons could firm up evidence on salt intake and health. The doubters will still doubt, say Mike Lean and Alastair Campbell
Trump v Kim: The mind games that led to the Korea summit
8 June 2018
The road to the Singapore summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un has been marked by nuclear bluffs. Let's hope the talks are for real, says Christopher Boehm
Time to end the cruel ban on using cannabis therapy for epilepsy
19 June 2018
Ill-conceived and outdated drug laws in the UK are denying children with severe epilepsy vital medicinal cannabis treatments. That must change, says David Nutt
How a change in tactics could help autism research
24 May 2018
For some, symptoms of autism can hamper their daily lives, but drugs to mitigate these have floundered during trials. Shafali Jeste has an idea of why
Your social media data is out there, just waiting to be leaked
16 May 2018
So much social media data has been siphoned off and stored in the name of research that questions over its security were only a matter of time, says Paul Marks
Brain training apps claim to make us smarter, but there is no evidence
12 October 2022
There are plenty of apps that offer mental exercises claiming to make users smarter the more they play. Not only are they not much fun, but studies show they have no effect on performance, says Adrian Hon