Extreme weather finally brings home the reality of climate change
1 August 2018
Climate scientists have shied away from attributing heatwaves and floods to global warming – but now there can be no more denying the facts
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The medical cannabis debate is a chance to put science before dogma
1 August 2018
Neither extreme prohibition nor extreme liberalism is a sensible drugs policy – on medical cannabis and elsewhere, let’s see what the facts say
One drink a day might be enough to stop dementia by flushing the brain
1 August 2018
Light drinking helps prevent dementia, and now we may know why: it revs up the brain’s waste disposal system
VR headset helps people who are legally blind see again
1 August 2018
A VR headset has helped people who are legally blind see again. While it didn’t cure their blindness, they were able to resume activities they previously found impossible
Earth Overshoot Day – what to make of this moment of reckoning?
1 August 2018
Earth Overshoot Day is a hugely popular way to highlight our global environmental impact. Here are two views on it...
NASA's plans to end the ISS could put its Mars missions in danger
31 July 2018
A report on NASA's plans to stop funding the International Space Station by 2024 reveals that crucial studies on human spaceflight won't be done in time
Women have more miscarriages than live births over their lifetime
30 July 2018
A study that brings together many different findings concludes that miscarriages are even more common than we thought
Terraforming Mars might be impossible due to a lack of carbon dioxide
30 July 2018
We need lots of carbon dioxide to make Mars habitable for Earth life – and it turns out there isn’t enough on the Red Planet
Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims
30 July 2018
A rare tsunami may have struck the islands of Shetland and Orkney off the UK’s north coast 5500 years ago, killing dozens of people who had to be hastily buried
Climate change made Europe’s heatwave twice as likely to happen
27 July 2018
The current heatwave in northern Europe was made twice as likely by climate change, according to a preliminary analysis.
