Kakadu National Park, Australia. Rita Willaert/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Bob Pressey, James Cook University and Euan Ritchie, Deakin University While we can never know for sure, an extraordinary number of…

Blaming 'Jordan syndrome' doesn't really cut it. British celebrity Katie Price (R) on the red carpet before the start of the Vienna State Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria, 11 February 2010. Robert…

The Drax plant in Yorkshire. Gareth Davies, CC BY By Richard Tol, University of Sussex Winter is coming. And the UK has a real chance of brownouts or even blackouts from lack of power. The long…

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Gavin Andrew Stewart, CC BY By Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway and Olivier Marie, Maastricht University Germany and the rest of Europe are celebrating the 25th…

If graduates are helped along through school, how will they cope in the workforce? Shutterstock By Rachael Sharman, University of the Sunshine Coast A research center in the UK recently found that…

As both a word and an idea, 'medieval' carries centuries of connotation of a murky and brutal pre-scientific age. Swanson Scott/US Fish&Wildlife Service  By Louise D'Arcens, University of…

It has slowly dawned on climate researchers that promoting the belief that curbing CO2 will prevent climate change has been a bad idea. American and European CO2 emissions have gone down, for example…

If one believes the backers of mandatory labeling initiatives in Colorado and Oregon, Tuesday’s vote is simple common sense: It’s about the “right to know” what’s in our food. This is the beguiling…

Improved behavior and learning in the classroom by primary school students can be achieved in just for minutes according to new research by Brendon Gurd.  Since the education industry needs to…

The IPCC is clear on the dangers of fossil fuels. Pete Markham, CC BY-SA By Simon Buckle, Imperial College London The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to publish the “synthesis…