Explainer: what is ISIS and where did it come from?
By Peter Shirlow, Queen's University Belfast
Iraq is facing its most alarming crisis in years. The second city of Mosul and the major city of...
Heat accumulating deep in the Atlantic has put global warming on hiatus
By Richard P. Allan, University of Reading
There seem to have been a dozen or so explanations for why the Earth’s surface has warmed at...
China’s fight to feed itself is hindered by anti-GM paranoia
By Cong Cao, University of Nottingham
One of China’s major genetically modified food projects is now to all intents and purposes dead and buried. The...
Tantalising tentacles: octopus could be the next big thing in aquaculture
By José Iglesias Estévez, Spanish Institute of Oceanography
Octopuses grow quickly, have lots of tasty flesh and are found all over the world. As...
Nine months into Ebola crisis it’s sad we’re taking more notice because of ‘threat’...
By Simon Rushton, University of Sheffield
Addressing the United Nations on September 25, Barack Obama described the Ebola crisis as “an urgent threat to the...
Clearing up confusion between correlation and causation
By Jonathan Borwein (Jon), University of Newcastle and Michael Rose, University of Newcastle
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does...
Five ways to stop the world’s wildlife vanishing
By Paul Jepson, University of Oxford
Full marks to colleagues at the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London for the Living Planet...
Scientists at work: capturing beautiful millipedes in Ohio
By Derek Hennen, University of Arkansas
I stumbled through the forest, attempting to find a path I knew was there. It didn’t take that long...
