Sep 7, 2021 | News
Paul Davies, astrobiologist and cosmologist, argues that viruses may form a vital part of ecosystems on other planets.
Jul 24, 2021 | News
The InSight mission reveals the average thickness of Mars’ crust to be between 24km and 72km – somewhat thinner than had been expected. The key finding is the size of the planet’s core. Its radius of 1,830km is at the top end of previous estimates.
Jul 18, 2021 | Articles
Growing global meat consumption threatens to derail the Paris Agreement, but that hasn’t stopped the meat industry insisting it is part of the solution to climate change.
Jul 4, 2021 | Articles
With a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus has been left alone by space agencies for a decade. Now we are about to learn more about its climate – and the chances of life on other planets.
Jul 3, 2021 | Books
Graeme Taylor has won a bronze medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards for A Paramedic’s Tales. He is also the author of Evolution’s Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World, which won an IPPY gold medal in 2009.
Jun 28, 2021 | News
Scientists from Europe and the U.S. reported Monday there isn’t nearly enough water vapour in Venus’s clouds to support life as we know it. This follows September’s surprise announcement by others that tiny organisms could be lurking there.
Jun 25, 2021 | News
A new study has found that, over the past 5,000 years, roughly 1,715 nearby stars would have been in a position to see Earth, and 29 potentially habitable planets around those stars could have also received human-made radio transmissions.
Jun 22, 2021 | News
Legal experts from across the globe have drawn up a “historic” definition of ecocide, intended to be adopted by the international criminal court to prosecute the most egregious offences against the environment.
Jun 18, 2021 | News
The animal sentience bill recognises that fish and other vertebrates feel pain and should be protected, where possible, from suffering. However, the group of MPs has argued that some invertebrates should be included in the bill.
May 8, 2021 | Articles
For decades, scientists and economists have been making wagers about the outcome of human population growth. Now, more than ever, their speculations need to be taken seriously.
Apr 20, 2021 | Articles
Nikolai Fyodorov’s beliefs in a cosmic religion centred on life off Earth helped inspire some of the Soviet Union’s most brilliant engineers.
Apr 13, 2021 | News
Adding the likes of peas, lentils, beans, and chickpeas to your diet, and farming more of them, could result in more nutritious and effective food production with large environmental benefits, scientists have found.
Apr 7, 2021 | Opinion
The film gets some things wrong, but it exposes the grim ecological destruction of the Earth’s oceans.
Mar 28, 2021 | Articles
The cosmos has been expanding since the Big Bang, but how fast? The answer could reveal whether much we thought we knew about physics is wrong.
Mar 12, 2021 | News
A year after ditching a Google tie-up to create a tech-heavy waterside development, Canada’s largest city is stressing affordability and sustainability.
Feb 24, 2021 | Articles
Questions still swirl around the author’s theories about sexual selection and the evolution of minds and morals. Some passages strike modern readers as offensive, especially where Darwin speculates on issues of race and on gender roles.
