The Sciences

A fire burns at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 2, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Ricardo Moraes

Massive Fire at 200-Year-Old National Museum in Brazil

Reuters 03/09/2018

The museum, which is tied to the Rio de...

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In Defence of Air-Conditioning

Leigh Phillips 02/09/2018

A right to air-conditioning is both morally just and...

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Infinite in All Directions: Singularities in Science, Absolute Hot and Others

Vasudevan Mukunth 01/09/2018

Every day we get more proof that primacy may...

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Ancient Teenager the First Known Person with Parents of Two Different Species

Michelle Langley 31/08/2018

Ancient DNA in a 50,000+ year old bone tells...

“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops” – Steven Jay Gould. Credit: Kayle Kaupanger/Unsplash

A Powerful Idea: Poverty Affects Basic Cognitive Abilities

Leslee Lazar 31/08/2018

If you work harder, change your attitude and get...

Research on coral reefs published by scientists at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has been found to have plagiarised content, some of it wrong and misleading.

Idea Plagiarism and Ethics in Competitive Research

Praveen Chaddha 30/08/2018

Idea plagiarism can result in an undeserving person being...

We have ancient ancestors to thank for the cheese we eat today. Credit: Pixabay

The Surprising Role Cheese Played in Human Evolution

Penny Bickle 30/08/2018

Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest cheese, and it...