Ebola: bats get a bad rap when it comes to spreading diseases
By Alexandra Kamins, Colorado Hospital Association; Marcus Rowcliffe, Zoological Society of London, and Olivier Restif, University of Cambridge
In an era flush with vaccines and...
What We’ve Learned From Four Years of Diving Into Dollars for Docs
by Charles Ornstein, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones ProPublica, Sep. 29, 2014, 9:20 a.m.
This story was co-published with The New York Times.
On Tuesday,...
Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job
by Megan McCloskey ProPublica, Oct. 3, 2014, 10:32 a.m.
The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service...
How gut bacteria ensure a healthy brain – and could play a role in treating...
By Clio Korn, University of Oxford
One of medicine’s greatest innovations in the 20th century was the development of antibiotics. It transformed our ability to...
Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Sep. 30, 2014, 9:47 p.m.
The federal government unveiled data Tuesday detailing 4.4 million payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals...
Why climate ‘uncertainty’ is no excuse for doing nothing
By Richard Pancost, University of Bristol and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol
Former environment minister Owen Paterson has called for the UK to scrap its...
A look behind UK’s impressive unemployment figures shows they’re not so dazzling
By Geraint Johnes, Lancaster University
Unemployment in the UK has fallen below two million for the first time in almost six years, latest figures from...
If learners live online, teachers and textbooks must follow them
By David White, University of the Arts London
Ten years after the launch of Facebook and eight years after the launch of Twitter, social media...
