A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun
18 September 2019
As the September equinox falls, we begin a new astronomy series with all you need to know about how Earth's orbit affects what we see in the night sky
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Deliberate drowning of Brazil's rainforest is worsening climate change
18 September 2019
It isn't just Bolsonaro and the fires. Hydroelectric dams in the Amazon are submerging millions of trees, transforming huge carbon sinks into sources of planet-warming gases
Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion
18 September 2019
We met with the renowned evolutionary biologist and controversial atheist to hear about science and beauty, Twitter, vegetarianism, pernicious religions, and his cautious sense of optimism
Laws are needed when technological change ends up squeezing workers
18 September 2019
California’s Assembly Bill 5 will let gig workers have benefits, unions and legal protection. It was needed to prevent a return to Dickensian working conditions, argues Annalee Newitz
Jeffrey Epstein scandal raises questions over who should fund science
18 September 2019
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein donated huge sums of money to the MIT Media Lab. Is it time we had better ways to decide who can fund science?
True nature of consciousness: Solving the biggest mystery of your mind
18 September 2019
Far from being a mystical “ghost in the machine”, consciousness evolved as a practical mental tool and we could engineer it in a robot using these simple guidelines
A network in the brain is involved in a range of mental health issues
15 September 2019
Depression, schizophrenia and some other mental health conditions have a variety of symptoms but they all seem to be connected by similar differences in the brain
Boosting circadian rhythms can help relieve perinatal depression
14 September 2019
The activity of circadian genes appears to be altered in women with perinatal depression. Using light to reset the body clock may improve symptoms
We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees
13 September 2019
People seem to be able to understand gestures made by chimpanzees, suggesting the signals may be remnants of a basic sign language used by our last common ancestors
We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth
11 September 2019
Astronomers have found a comet that seems to have come from beyond our solar system, which would make it the second interstellar object that we’ve ever spotted
