Texas floods highlight need to reform key insurance program
James P Howard, II, University of Baltimore
This article is part of The Conversation’s series this month on hurricanes. You can read the rest of...
Our partisan brains: exploring the psychology behind denying science
Erik C Nisbet, The Ohio State University and R. Kelly Garrett, The Ohio State University
Senator Inhofe (R-Okla.) pitched a snowball on the floor of...
It’s a crying shame when Nobel laureates are exposed as sexist
Monica Grady, The Open University
I’m not sure whether I’m weeping tears of laughter or sorrow at the comments made by Nobel Laureate and English...
Should airline pilots have less medical privacy?
Carissa Véliz, University of Oxford
Since it was revealed that Andreas Lubitz – the co-pilot who purposefully crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, killing 150 people –...
An artificial pancreas has just made giving birth safer for diabetic women
Joan Taylor, De Montfort University
Last week, a British diabetic women became the world’s first to complete a natural vaginal birth using an artificial pancreas....
What does exposure to environmental chemicals mean for our health?
Ivy Shiue, Northumbria University, Newcastle
It is not possible to live in a chemical-free world on Earth. Chemicals are all around us, and some, like...
New solar storm forecasting technique breaks the 24-hour warning barrier for Earth
Neel Savani, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Solar storms start their lives as violent explosions from the sun’s surface. They’re made up of energetic charged...
Crowdsourcing the Serengeti: how citizen scientists classified millions of photos from home
Alexandra Swanson, University of Oxford
At this very moment in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, more than 200 hidden cameras are snapping photos day and night,...
