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I enjoyed John Lanchester’s article on the generation gap (Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap, 8…

My late husband, Niall Logan, professor of bacterial systematics at Glasgow Caledonian University, would have been astonished that his lifelong field of academic study, taxonomy, in…

The UNC system Board of Governors has now defined academic freedom in its policies. Ryan Herron/iStock/Getty Images The University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted…

In your interview with Tracey Emin about A Second Life, her forthcoming major exhibition at Tate Modern, and other matters (‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two:…

Planetary-scale solar geoengineering interventions involve the deliberate injection of either natural or artificial particulates into the stratosphere – stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI – with a…

The Trump administration’s “war on woke” seems to have claimed its biggest victim in DEI. Not so long ago, diversity, equity and inclusion was the favorite…

The future of the American west hangs in balance this week, as seven states remained at a stalemate over who should bear the brunt of the…

Last week, on the morning the government published its Pfas action plan, I got a worried phone call from a woman called Sam who lives next…

February 2, 20261 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmJupiter isn’t as huge as we thought it was“Textbooks will need to be updated”: the solar system’s…

Jarno Coone, the winner of the international ‘world’s ugliest lawn’ competition, says he doesn’t let his garden grow wild to annoy his neighbours in the regional…