Are experiments on how animals think ever justified?
9 October 2019
As research reveals ever more similarities between the human experience and that of many animals, it becomes harder to defend the pursuit of such knowledge
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If we label eco-anxiety as an illness, climate denialists have won
9 October 2019
The UK media reports a “tsunami” of cases of eco-anxiety in children. It is no medical condition, though, it is a rational response to the state of the climate, says Graham Lawton
Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real
9 October 2019
Robert Boyle's 17th-century wish list of innovations shows the world-changing power of basic research – and why we must invest more in it, says historian David Cannadine
Experiments show us how animal minds work – but should we do them?
9 October 2019
We've now found that budgies have empathy and macaques use logic. But such experiments mean keeping animals in unnatural conditions, raising questions about their value
Tea and banana plants have been genetically modified by bacteria
8 October 2019
Around 1 in 20 flowering plants are naturally transgenic, with added bacterial genes that can make them produce unusual chemicals
UN agency meant to be limiting flying emissions votes to limit action
8 October 2019
The agency’s own scheme will not stop greenhouse gas emissions soaring, yet members have voted to block all other efforts to slow the growth
Supercomputer simulates 77,000 neurons in the brain in real-time
8 October 2019
A brain-inspired computer can simulate part of the sensory cortex in real time, using tens of thousands of virtual neurons. It is the first time such a complex simulation has run this fast
The key to a long life may be genes that protect against stress
7 October 2019
Long-lived animals like the grey whale and naked mole rat have genes that protect them from stress and cancer
Microbial life might drift in the atmospheres of failed stars
7 October 2019
Brown dwarfs are too large to be planets and too small to be stars, but they have gaseous atmospheres that may have all the ingredients needed for life
Nobel prize for medicine goes to discovery of how cells sense oxygen
7 October 2019
The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been jointly awarded to William Kaelin of Harvard University, Peter Ratcliffe of Oxford University and Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University, for their discovery of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen...
