If you ask a female doctor why she didn't go into physics, she is not going to tell you it's because there are more men in physics and that is intimidating. Instead, she will say it's because she…

Imagine a scenario where a group of people get together to frame the debate about science and even set out to conspiratorially place papers in highly-respected journals, selecting the ideal names to…

Just for yucks, let’s go back a few years and see how well people did in forecasting drug prices in the future. Within the past decade, we began to hear the term “patent cliff”—the consequence of…

If you have talked to ranchers or people who live near wolves about being able to shoot them without landing in prison with a mandatory Federal jail sentence, the response is clear: Wolves have…

The sons of fathers with criminal records tend to have less intelligence than sons of fathers with no criminal history, according to data from over 1 million Swedish men compiled as part of the…

Artistic rendering of the Square Kilometre Array at night. SKA Organisation By Yves Wiaux, Heriot Watt University and Jason McEwen, University College London Telescopes have come a long way since the…

What do you presume about me? auremar/Shutterstock By James Williams, University of Sussex In 1982 I was toying with the idea of a career in teaching. That year a controversial film, Made in Britain…

In the classical game theory match-up known as the Prisoner’s Dilemma, two prisoners kept isolated from each other are offered a deal: they can confess to a crime and if their accomplice remains…

Muslim communities are not be as victimized by violent crime nor are they as dissatisfied with the police as most sociology papers claim. An examination of statistics in the Crime Survey of England…

After decades of cracking, the cracks are appearing in cryptography. infobunny, CC BY By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and…