LATEST OPINION
Sea of selfies – social media's monoculture threat
REVIEW: 17:40 11 August 2014
Social media's just fun, right? No, says a new art exhibition: tweets and selfies are creating monoculture, an online equivalent to crops like rape seed
My recreational drugs can defeat organised crime
INTERVIEW: 11:00 11 August 2014
Anonymous drug designer Dr Z says prohibitionist policies don't work. Instead, we should provide legal mind-altering drugs to improve society
Who's driving? Autonomous vehicles have a problem
LEADER: 16:00 09 August 2014
There's a strong case to be made for remotely piloted planes and self-driving cars – but letting a machine drive flies in the face of human nature
I won the Nobel by experimenting on myself
INTERVIEW: 12:00 09 August 2014
Barry Marshall experimented on himself to prove that H. pylori causes stomach ulcers and he won a Nobel prize. But what if the bug has a good side?
What it's like to fly passenger planes from the ground
INTERVIEW: 22:00 07 August 2014
Bob Fraser explains what it feels like to pilot a Jetstream airliner containing passengers on 800-kilometre trips from a desk
What to do when the power goes out in Antarctica
INTERVIEW: 17:15 07 August 2014
It's winter at the South Pole, and last week the power went out at the Halley Research Station. Base commander John Eager tells how the team coped with the -55 °C
Discharging Ebola survivors makes the pain worthwhile
INTERVIEW: 22:00 06 August 2014
As well as a flood of patients, the only working Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone has to deal with rumours of organ harvesting, says doctor Anja Wolz
Cool your jets: NASA's quantum spaceship is doubtful
COMMENT: 14:58 06 August 2014
A research paper suggesting the possibility of a futuristic spaceship engine is most likely the result of an experimental error, says Phil Plait
Are we thinking about OCD backwards?
THE BIG IDEA: 20:00 05 August 2014
Everyone knows that thoughts cause actions which cause habits. What if this is the wrong way round, asks psychologist Claire Gillan
Leopards can be good neighbours in Mumbai
INTERVIEW: 14:00 04 August 2014
Mumbai residents really can coexist with the secretive big cats – they just need to understand their ways, says ecologist Vidya Athreya
OPINION
Will intensified farming save the rainforests?
The idea that you can save the natural world by increasing the efficiency of agriculture is very appealing. But Fred Pearce is far from convinced
THE BIG IDEA
The Frankenstein syndrome: Why fear making humans?
From IVF to artificial wombs, why does each advance in reproductive technology still conjure up visions of monsters or Hitler clones, asks Philip Ball
