Seventy-five years on from the first mysterious sightings in the US, Nicholas Barber looks back at one of the most haunting objects in popular culture.
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology.
Exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars, were once only theorized. And even then, astronomers thought only some stars had planets. Yet, on Monday, NASA announced that, to date, 5,000 exoplanets have been detected.
Located in a German region famed for its frugality, Tübingen is known for its fiercely green reputation, where veganism and environmental friendliness are the default setting.
Across his career, the philosopher David Chalmers has challenged what we hold to be true about consciousness and the mind. Now he is questioning reality itself.
With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world’s 10 most widely spoken languages. There is a renewed push for it to become the continent’s lingua franca.
High-income countries could cut their agricultural emissions by almost two-thirds through dietary change, a study finds. Moving away from animal-based foods could free up an area of land larger than the entire European Union.
Edward O. Wilson, the sometimes-controversial U.S. biologist, professor, and author known as “Darwin’s natural heir”, who studied insects and human behaviour, has died at the age of 92, his foundation said Monday.
The wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the US. It is now spilling into the discourse of mainstream politics.
George Monbiot says it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction. Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up.
When farmers abandon their land, should we just let nature take its course? As ecologists meet to discuss the threat to global biodiversity, some believe that accepting chaos is the best approach.
According to George Monbiot, it’s not just anti-vaxxers. The themes of resisting power and regaining control of our lives have been cynically repurposed.
The global production of food is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity, with the use of animals for meat causing twice the pollution of producing plant-based foods, a major new study has found.
