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NewsAfrica and Australasia to share Square Kilometre Array
The €1.5bn (£1.2bn) SKA’s huge fields of antennas will sweep the sky for answers to the major outstanding questions in astronomy.
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NewsHave mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing?
What have researchers achieved?The claim is they have eliminated HIV from living animals for the first time, by cutting it out of its hiding places in the body – in other words, that they have cured the animals. How did they do it?They used a gene-editing system called CRISPR, which ...
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NewsWill robots take my job? No, but they will break it into tiny bits
This changes everything | Robots will take our jobs in name only. They are actually fragmenting them in a way that undermines our ability to find full-time work, warns Annalee Newitz
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NewsWhy Ian McEwan doesn’t see his latest novel as being science fiction
What would the 1980s have been like if Alan Turing had lived? Ian McEwan talks about his exploration of a speculative past for AI in his novel Machines Like Me. Our feelings about a new gadget follow a familiar cycle: there is excitement at a fresh toy, then confusion as ...
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NewsWant to stop climate change? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy
In his new book Upheaval, polymath Jared Diamond says nations need a special kind of therapy to solve big problems like climate change, Brexit and nuclear proliferation. JARED DIAMOND is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He started out working in electrophysiology and became a ...
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NewsTrue AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines
Stories abound of machines that are writing, painting and making music. Are we about to enter the creative singularity, asks Marcus du Sautoy. In October 2018, a portrait of Edmond Belamy sold at Christie’s in New York for $432,500, nearly 45 times its maximum estimated price. ...
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FeaturesThe Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why
For 30 years, one man has been obsessed with the whisperings of the aurora borealis. His search for its origins may finally be over
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ResearchRobotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad
The rapid rise of robot-aided surgery ignores the fact that high-tech gadgets don’t always improve treatment outcomes but do increase costs
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FeaturesHow Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets
Earth’s nearest neighbours have turned into uninhabitable hellholes. Understanding their transformation will teach us which rocky exoplanets might be fit for life
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FeaturesKoalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross
With wildfires on the rise, endangered koalas are more threatened than ever, but a new treatment for burned animals offers a ray of hope. We go inside the world’s only koala hospital
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FeaturesHow climate change is affecting the world’s forests
Forests are important in determining the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere; they absorb 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, about one-third of the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels.
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FeaturesThe flexible future of green energy
The UK’s transition from fossil-fuel guzzler to renewable energy pioneer is being driven by flexible technology and clever investment, says Matt Setchell of Octopus Group
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FeaturesFoot of ‘world’s oldest child’ shows how our ancestors moved
More than three million years ago, a distant cousin called Australopithecus afarensis was walking around on two legs – marking a key chapter in the human story. But a new study of a rare A. afarensis toddler, published in Science Advances, suggests her feet retained some ape-like traits.
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FeaturesFemale Nobel Laureates
David Loskins looks at female Nobel laureates over time and the details of each individual.
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FeaturesI experienced the patriarchy from both sides of the gender gap
Paula Williams transitioned from male to female six years ago. She talks about learning about her white male privilege the hard way
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FeaturesWhy the patriarchy isn’t good for men and how to fix it
Societies can be taught to be less misogynistic, but the first step is understanding how gender norms have backfired on men as well as women
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FeaturesHow protective parents exacerbate gender differences
Yes, men’s and women’s brains are wired differently – but the science shows that outside influences can also shape our gender identity
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FeaturesThe hidden reasons why societies are violent towards women
30 per cent of women experience sexual violence in their lifetimes – bad parenting, low respect and the glorification of male competition are to blame
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FeaturesSpecial report: The origins of sexism
Human societies weren’t always male-dominated. The switch came when we became farmers – and that suggests ways to roll back towards a more equal system.
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PodcastTim O'Brien - Why should I care about the SKA?
Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory Tim O’Brien gives an inspiring presentation on why we should care about the Square Kilometre Array and what it represents. The presentation was recorded at the SKA Prospectus Workshop held at the Jodrell Bank Observatory.
