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You have full access to this article via your institution. The name Asilomar has become a metaphor for problem-solving in science and society.Credit: Stephen B. Goodwin/Shutterstock In 2008, Nature published…
Birds, Sex & Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea Matt Ridley 4th Estate (2025) At 4 a.m. one April morning, science writer Matt Ridley was hurrying up…
What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary in their properties, such as electrical conductivity, density, melting temperature or light-absorption spectra? Such questions…
Students in a biology laboratory around 1899 at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a historically Black university in Greensboro. Credit: Buyenlarge/Getty Throughout the twentieth century and beyond,…
Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin Icon Books (2025) What is it with toilets? In domestic households, men and women use the same ones…
So you finally got a Nintendo Switch. Congratulations! You might feel like you’re five years late to the game, but actually, you’re lucky: You’ve got a half decade’s worth of…
The advent of AI models will only accelerate this trend. We will place ever more value on works that seem made for their own sake, rather than ours. That’s bad…
New Delhi: World Consumer Rights Day is observed on March 15, every year, to create global awareness about the rights and needs of consumers. The day aims to recognise consumer…
This is the computer Watson was talking about when he said the following: “I would like to tell you that the machine rents for between $12,000 and $18,000 a month,…
Let’s agree, we all have a special masala dabba in our kitchen. After all, spices not only amp up the taste of food and introduce more flavours to a particular…