Mass grave reveals organised violence among Europe’s first farmers
Mass grave reveals organised violence among Europe's first farmers
Rick Schulting, University of Oxford
The discovery of 26 bodies with lethal injuries in a 7,000 year...
Play linked to sluggish growth in infant monkeys – but should humans worry?
Phyllis Lee, University of Stirling
For more than a century, researchers have tried to pin down exactly why so many animal species play in their...
Canary in the Gold King Mine: legacy of abandoned mines means more spills
Ronald R H Cohen, Colorado School of Mines
You are gazing over the clear stream, thinking of fishing the crystal waters in the Rockies. The...
Forget Freud, research on dream imagery may help us understand consciousness
Uma Shahani, Glasgow Caledonian University
Rapid eye movements (REMs) during sleep may contribute to the visual part of our dreams by acting as a switch...
Hard Evidence: how has the sharing economy changed job security?
Hard Evidence: how has the sharing economy changed job security?
Ian Brinkley, Lancaster University
There has been a great deal of attention given to the development...
From Smokey Bear to climate change: the future of wildland fire management
John Bailey, Oregon State University
Current conditions in the West demonstrate that our US fire management system is struggling and approaching a state of crisis....
The biggest infectious disease threat we face isn’t Ebola…
The biggest infectious disease threat we face isn't Ebola – it's our short attention span
Bruce Ribner, Emory University
A year ago, I received a phone...
Temporary ban on fishing reflects how fragile Arctic ecosystem is
Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia
As climate change melts the ice in the Arctic, areas that had previously been closed in the Arctic...
