Pest control: Should we even ask if there is an ethical way to kill...
Standard wooden snap traps often catch limbs or tails, forcing rats to gnaw them off in desperation. Live-catch traps are difficult to implement, and...
Jimmy Carter’s unlikely presidency
24 Feb 2023 1:37 AMThe man was not what you think. He was tough. He was extremely intimidating. Jimmy Carter was probably the most intelligent, hard-working and decent...
Genetically modified trees grown in a US forest
23 Feb 2023 1:40 AMOn Monday, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees.
EU turns crisis into a green energy sprint
22 Feb 2023 9:30 AMWhat is remarkable is that the EU has not just managed to avert a crisis but “turbocharged the green transition,” potentially enough to knock a full...
In memoriam: Roger C Schank, theorist of AI, dies at 76
22 Feb 2023 1:38 AMRoger C Schank, a scientist who made influential contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and then, as an academic, author and...
An age of impunity rages across the world
21 Feb 2023 9:30 AMImpunity is the exercise of power without accountability, which becomes, in starkest form, the commission of crimes without punishment
A doodle reveals da Vinci’s early deconstruction of gravity
21 Feb 2023 1:37 AMWhen Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t painting a masterpiece or dreaming up flying machines, he was pondering the mysteries of gravity.
Terms of endearment: The changing online language of hearts
18 Feb 2023 1:30 PMThe distinctive curves-and-point symbol was birthed in the 14th century when the Italian physician Guido da Vigevano wrote a treatise on the...