Tag: life & news
Sex education at school means students have sex safer and later
Wendy MacDowall, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lessons at school have become the most common source of information about sexual matters for young...
Crying out for a change in mood on emotional disorders and...
Ron Rapee
A few weeks ago, my children came home from school to announce they were raising money for World Vision’s 40-hour famine.
Naturally, I applauded...
Who wants a BlackBerry these days? Millions in Africa and Asia
By Nigel Linge, University of Salford
BlackBerry, once the must-have device for the sweaty palms of executives and wannabe executives everywhere, has seen its global...
From 60s counterculture to big business: the politics of festivals
By Roxanne Yeganegy, Leeds Beckett University
Today, British music festivals are big business. So you’d be forgiven for assuming that they’d morphed into mere simulations...
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...
The perfect cup of coffee boils down to four factors
By Don Brushett
Welcome to the second instalment in our series Chemistry of Coffee, where we unravel the delicious secrets of one of the most...
Metabolomics: wine and cheese, curing disease … no doping please
By Darren Saunders, Garvan Institute and Rae-Anne Hardie, Garvan Institute
Rapid developments in tools to study complex interactions are transforming biology and biomedical research.
A series...
Pi Day is silly, but π itself is fascinating and universal
By Daniel Ullman, George Washington University
Math students everywhere will be eating pies in class this week in celebration of what is known as Pi...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
