Independent Analysis and Reportage
A tick disease researcher explains the risks and how she avoids bringing home ticks from both work and walking her dog in the woods. Lint rollers, tick checks and some types of chemicals play a role.
The missions the foundations’ original donors champion during their lifetimes can become outdated after they’ve died.
The AI industry is dominated by young, male tech workers. It runs the risk of developing apps and tools that reproduce these gender and age-biases.
Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.
Learning languages may keep your brain young, but the evidence for preventing dementia itself is far less clearcut.
The confirmation of the bird flu virus in a brown skua appears to be a single detection. Ongoing surveillance will be essential to detect any further cases.
Four experts explain how we can protect the rare – and increasingly at risk – spidery wattle.
If VAR catches a player offside by their toe, this is a correct decision. Whether this is what we want as fans is a philosophical debate.
Many baby boomers see AI as a revolutionary tool, while young people see it as taking away their agency.
ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue with equal weight. This view also holds that appearing to be critical of one side and sympathetic to another amounts to “bias”. That notion of…
The benefits of sport are undeniable for kids. But how much risk is acceptable?
Researchers are working to engineer bacteria that can kill cancerous tumours while reducing harm to healthy cells and tissue.