Humans Curbing hate speech isn’t censorship – it’s the law UK universities are being accused of suppressing ideas. All they are doing is complying with the law – and common decency News
Health Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby A step closer for trans women A 30-year-old transgender woman has become the first officially recorded to breastfeed her baby . An experimental three-and-a-half-month treatment regimen, which included hormones, a nausea drug and breast stimulation, enabled the woman to produce 227 grams of milk a day. “This is a very big deal,” says Joshua Safer … News
Health Shampoo is causing air pollution, but let’s not lose our heads Hair today, damaging the climate tomorrow Say air pollution and we tend to think of car exhausts, large factories and open fires. But in Western cities, one of the biggest sources of air pollution is something else entirely: household items like your deodorant and shampoo. A team including Brian McDonald and Jessica Gilman of the … News
Earth These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships YOU won't find this species in your average cloud-spotter's guide. These fluffy strings might look like icy contrails left by aircraft, but they are actually created by ships plying the ocean . Clouds are collections of tiny water droplets, which need a speck of something solid to condense around. That can be anything from bacteria … Regulars
Humans The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated? Deep inside our genome are bits of DNA we share only with animals such as dogs and cattle. Our self-domestication may have been a pivotal moment in making us human Features
Life Transmediale digital arts: The internet's impossible paradox The internet poses an impossible paradox for digital artists: – the tech that delivers so much also filters out the context that allows art to really do its job Culture
Technology Knife-wielding robot makes it a piece of cake to divide dessert Split dessert in style Sharing pudding is a piece of cake with this knife-wielding robot "I make a mean Victoria sponge," says A. Baker. "Trouble is, after dinner, everyone wants a slice and splitting dessert between seven is no piece of cake. How do I keep them all sweet and distribute the pudding with precision?" … Regulars
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