You stub your toe on the bedpost. Before your brain even registers the pain, a word explodes from your mouth – sharp, loud and oddly satisfying. Far from being a simple slip in manners, swearing is a reflex rooted deep in the structure of the human body, drawing on networks in the brain and…

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script written by Charles Dickens during the American Civil War raises the possibility he may also have understood the story as speaking to the cause of ending slavery in the US. First…

After waiting more than a year to see an NHS specialist, Sam’s assessment for ADHD took less than two hours. It happened over video, involved a short checklist and brief history, and ended with a swift decision. Within weeks, Sam had a diagnosis, a prescription and a discharge letter back to the GP…

Beginning in the 1980s, science pivoted the world went from Population Bomb mass starvation concerns to the luxury of being able to be worried about obesity. Sixty years ago, you had to be rich to be fat, and government-controlled healthcare may now mean you have to be rich to be thin. A new paper…

A four-year study across 17 conventional farms in southern England trialled various agroecological methods and found that incorporating nature-friendly practices increases biodiversity, pollination by bees, natural pest control and numbers of earthworms - but at a substantial cost. The costs of…

Europe is requiring hydrogen infrastructure like refueling stations but their one-size-fits-all approach will cost some countries millions and million of euros in losses, according to a new analysis by Chalmers University of Technology. The Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR), which…

The UK is facing a security crisis. Great power competition has returned, and the threat of hostility from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is increasing. The west can no longer assume military superiority, and the UK can no longer depend unconditionally on the US. The character of war itself is…

A recent analysis is sounding an environmental alarm over brominated flame retardants, PCBs, plastic, lead, pesticides, and heavy metals.  They believe they are the first to find evidence of hedgehog exposure to PAHs, phthalates and pesticides through analyses of liver tissue. Urban green spaces…

It’s a dangerous time for protest rights in the UK. The government has introduced a bill that would make it a criminal offence to conceal your identity at a protest. The crime and policing bill establishes an offence if a person conceals their identity within a specifically designated area. That is…

The United States is producing affordable food using less energy, less water, and less land than at any time in history, all leading to less environmental strain. A new study warns Germany they need to be more like America soon. A new analysis found that pesticide pollution is spreading from the…