Why companies have little incentive to invest in cybersecurity
By Benjamin Dean, Columbia University
Editor’s note: US President Barack Obama is seeking US$14 billion to tackle it. The UK wants to build a start-up...
Why research beats anecdote in our search for knowledge
By Tim Dean
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things? We begin today...
Sexuality in the time of Trump
Kevin Mintz, Stanford University
I celebrated my first Gay Pride Day in San Francisco on June 28, 2015. Two days earlier, the Supreme Court legalized...
Could crowd-sourced policing turn us into vigilantes – or bedroom super sleuths?
By David S. Wall, Durham University
An increasingly popular weekend pastime among fans of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse and others, are murder mystery...
Health Check: what does my blood group mean?
By Ashley Ng, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Few discoveries have revolutionised the practice of medicine as much as the discovery of human red blood...
Explainer: what is jet lag and how can you overcome it?
Leon Lack, Flinders University
Long flights across many time zones often leave us feeling fatigued, sleepy, irritable and generally out of sorts. And it’s not...
Move over poker – Millionaire’s Chess offers high stakes in Vegas
By John Sharples, Lancaster University
This October, the Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas is hosting a chess tournament with the largest prize fund in...
Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace
Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an advocacy group...
