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By Prof. Lisa Randall “Dark matter” and “dinosaurs” are words you rarely hear together except perhaps in the playground, a fantasy gaming club, or some not-yet-released Spielberg movie. Dark matter…

On Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things By M R Connor When I was a kid in the 1990s, the world often felt like it was on…

By Sophia Fox-Sowell I burnt the remains of my outfit from that night. I loved that skirt. My grandmother gave it to me. But it reeks of the wine bar…

You might think witchcraft and paganism in America had its heyday back in Salem in the 17th Century (not to be mistaken for witch hunts by the modern Republicans in…

Does Darwinian theory still affect and control our modern human lives? Are we still undergoing the slow process of natural selection? Or is there a different paradigm in place now…

By Dr Joe Shwarcz “Let me sprinkle some of this magic chemical on these ropes,” the young magician said, reaching into his pocket. He then proceeded to unravel the three…

By Johann Hari It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned – and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told…