We can get into the habit of thinking about our sibling with judgment and criticism
The question Since our mother’s death, my brother and I have had no contact. He lives more than 100 miles away. Our relationship has been very difficult for over 40 years. When we both had young children, things were better for a time. When our dad died, Mum’s health deteriorated and she moved in with me and...
Why has so little been done to make indoor spaces safer, to stop the spread of airborne viruses?
Robin McKie’s article rings alarm bells for global health and our failure to control airborne pathogens (“What virus will cause the next pandemic? It’s flu, say scientists”).
We are rightly looking with concern at the spread of H5N1 and the risk it poses to humans, but we have still not applied the...
Austrian astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger has spent her life hunting for signs of life in the universe. Here she talks about aliens, space exploration and why studying cosmology is like eating pizza
Staring into the abyss… Am I really reaching anyone out there?” Lisa Kaltenegger is laughing about the unsatisfactory experience of teaching astrophysics over Zoom during Covid lockdowns, but she...
Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adults
The eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought.
Plus: Leaked details tell us more about the new Google Pixel 8A, Freitag’s environmentally conscious bag is entirely recyclable, and it’s time to unpack a whole bunch of tech acronyms.
Scientists hope studies into Boyajian’s star could lead to enhanced techniques for identifying distant planetary civilisations
It is our galaxy’s strangest star, a flickering globe of light whose sporadic and unpredictable output has baffled astronomers for years. But now the study of Boyajian’s star is being promoted as a research model that could help in one of the most intriguing of all...
Information security researchers are highlighting how attackers could use the File System Access API in some browsers to encrypt user files to try and extort money from them.