Science & Medicine

There is some debate going on within the scientific and medical community these days, and somewhat inflated by the media, regarding the health risks of ultraviolet (UV) radiation on the skin, most notably on...

Like many other illnesses, depression frequently presents differently in the elderly compared to younger people. It’s a common assumption that depression in your elderly relative would be simple to identify....

Cardboard balers are becoming increasingly popular – but why is this? Inside this article, you can find out. Climate change is a hot topic right now. For several years, it has been discussed non-stop on...

  Dr. Glenn McLaren   Where climate change is concerned, human imagination is a double-edged-sword. The seemingly controllable technological industrial utopia we imagined and built, has...

As professor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, David A. Patterson has led a distinguished academic career since joining the faculty in 1977. Patterson developed RISC I, a microprocessor...

Global warming is pressuring the world to cut back on fossil fuels. Even if it weren't, we have largely run out of the most easily accessible, cheapest sources of fossil fuels. This means that fossil fuels...

When the news came in America that Finnish schools promoted free play over homework, education seemed under attack. How would climbing trees and playing tag be more pedagogical than being sent home to read a...