Global uprisings in response to anti-Black police brutality have prompted demands to defund policing and reinvest…
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Albert Einstein the mediocre: Why the h-index is a bogus measure of academic impact
Earlier this year, French physician and microbiologist Didier Raoult generated a media uproar over his controversial…
New research reveals Indigenous public servants' experiences of racism
The Morrison government has just announced a plan to boost the number of Indigenous Australians in…
Languages will change significantly on interstellar flights
It’s a captivating idea: build an interstellar ark, fill it with people, flora, and fauna of…
JCB electric digger wins top MacRobert engineering prize
An all-electric construction vehicle from the Staffordshire firm wins this year’s MacRobert Award. Click…
New clues from fruit flies about the critical role of sex hormones in stem cell control
In one of the first studies addressing the role of sex hormones’ impact on stem cells…
Daytime aardvark sightings are a sign of troubled times
New research reveals what a shift from night-time to daytime activity means for the well-being of…
STS-135: Shuttle's Final Launch and the Beginning of a New Era
Space Shuttle Atlantis’ STS-135 mission launched from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on July…
Elon Musk says full self-driving Tesla tech 'very close'
A future software update could activate full “level-five” autonomy in cars, the Tesla founder says. …
Care for cats? So did people along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago
Common domestic cats, as we know them today, might have accompanied Kazakh pastoralists as pets more…