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Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder?

Humans

Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder?

US district judge Morris Hoffman weighs up the evidence for the prosecution in Martin Daly's book Killing the Competition, and wonders why murder is so rare

Culture

Maps and the 20th century: Where to draw the lines?

Humans

Maps and the 20th century: Where to draw the lines?

Culture

petrol station

Technology

How challenging the meaning of 'fuel' lets the real world in

Culture

figure in road

Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

Culture

Buckland with big fish

Life

Earwigs and rotten panther: The diet of a Victorian eccentric

Culture

Man in crowd holding figure 14

Humans

Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles

News

book

Life

Great Christmas books: Our guide to gifts that keep on giving

Culture

Projected sprite makes Shakespeare’s <i>The Tempest</i> a messy triumph

Technology

Projected sprite makes Shakespeare’s The Tempest a messy triumph

Culture

Flying machines and chickens: The art of thinking about science

Life

Flying machines and chickens: The art of thinking about science

Culture

Obama/Cameron

Humans

Playing politics: exposing the flaws of nudge thinking

Governments have experimented with "nudging" us into better public behaviour. But a new book by a proponent of the theory, underlines growing doubts

Culture

Health

Scurvy: A tale of the sailors' curse and a cure that got lost

Culture

Technology

Stanisław Lem: The man with the future inside him

Features

Humans

Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

Culture

Humans

When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?

Culture