Discovery: Biologists discovered a new species of tiny owl on the forested island of Príncipe, and it's already under threat
An international team of biologists has discovered a tiny new species of owl, called the Príncipe scops owl, living in a remote forest on an island off the west coast of Africa.Featuring Bárbara Freit...
27 Feb 202321min
After oil: the challenge and promise of getting the world off fossil fuels
Our dependence on fossil fuels is one of the biggest challenges to overcome in the fight against climate change. But production and consumption of fossil fuels is on the rise, and expected to peak wit...
23 Feb 202337min
Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it
Social isolation and loneliness are increasingly becoming a societal problem, as they increase polarization and impact on our physical health. In 2018, two years before the pandemic, the United Kingdo...
16 Feb 202336min
Lack of diversity in clinical trials is leaving minority patients behind and harming the future of medicine
Despite the many biological differences between people of different sexes, races, ages and life histories, chances are that if two people walk into a doctors office with the same symptoms, they are go...
9 Feb 202340min
Influencers are getting hired by smaller cities to attract new residents and generate revenue
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demographics of cities shifted. As stay-at-home orders, remote work and bubbling reduced social interaction, and restaurants, venues and arts destinations shut down t...
2 Feb 202328min
Beavers and oysters are helping restore lost ecosystems with their engineering skills
Whether you’re looking at tropical forests in Brazil, grasslands in California or coral reefs in Australia, it’s hard to find places where humanity hasn't left a mark. The scale of the alteration, inv...
26 Jan 202339min
Discovery: Secretly documenting starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
During the years of suffering and tragedy that defined the Warsaw Ghetto in the midst of World War II, a team of Jewish doctors secretly documented the effects of starvation on the human body when the...
23 Jan 202319min
Social welfare services are being cut across the world – but providing them is about more than just money
Across the globe, health-care workers have gone on strike to protest the stress placed on them by the global COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn, pushing already-strained services beyond their lim...
19 Jan 202336min
