Can everybody on the planet all live well?
22 November 2017
In a pressured world, we need to understand that how demographic trends affect people depends on where they live, says Massimo Livi Bacci in Our Shrinking Planet
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How your digital style gives you away – and how to hide it
22 November 2017
Each of us has a unique way with words when we type our messages, emails and social posts. Do you know what yours is saying about you?
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Black holes colliding, EU and Brexit, ivory bans and more
Austerity cuts to NHS blamed for 120,000 excess deaths
22 November 2017
Excess deaths between 2010 and 2017 correlated most closely with a lack of nurses in care homes and cuts to community nursing
Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill
21 November 2017
Last week the Keystone pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of oil. This week Nebraska decided to allow the Keystone XL extension to be built right through the state
Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy
21 November 2017
While the US tried to promote “clean coal” at the COP23 Bonn climate meeting, other countries called for the dirty fossil fuel to be rapidly phased out
Your music tastes can be changed by using magnets on your brain
20 November 2017
Around three minutes of brain stimulation is all it takes to change people’s love of music, and even how much money they’re willing to spend on it
Why a female fly will ruin your drink, but a male is fine
16 November 2017
We’re able to sense even tiny quantities of a female fruit fly pheromone, meaning one can ruin your wine no matter how quickly you remove it from your glass
Amish gene can make them live 10 years longer and avoid diabetes
15 November 2017
A gene variant that arose six generations ago in an Amish group seems to make people carrying the gene live ten years longer, and protect them from diabetes
In a Spotify world, why does anyone want to listen to cassettes?
13 November 2017
A US cassette firm is spooling up production again to meet demand. Do people really want to go back to the flimsy magnetic tape of the 1980s, asks Paul Marks
