New books and articles

09/07/2016 - 12:37

Sex is unknown in bacteria – the simplest and most ancient living cells on Earth – that reproduce by simply splitting into two. Evolving... →

01/07/2016 - 18:39

Sure, humans and dolphins aren’t as disparate as, say, humans and octopus; our last shared ancestor with the latter crawled the Earth about... →

20/06/2016 - 13:58

Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, examines how Kofi Annan, George Soros, Peter Sutherland, and others... →

14/06/2016 - 14:59

In January, for example, a group at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts said they had homed in on most of the genes involved in... →

10/06/2016 - 14:33

The Austrian Catholic church logged 300 applications for adult baptism in the first three months of 2016, with the Austrian pastoral... →

06/06/2016 - 13:30

To understand this loss, we must first define what we mean by “complexity” in the scientific sense. Consider a Rube Goldberg machine, in... →

01/06/2016 - 18:41

Yes, Russian nationalism is on the rise Pal Kolsto and Helge Blakkisrud edited “The New Russian Nationalism” (Edinburgh University Press,... →

26/05/2016 - 16:23

There is no doubt that SETI – the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – has received a huge fillip from the recent discovery of... →

22/05/2016 - 14:35

The different response by two different governments to the phenomenon of popular protest is reflected across the world. It does not just... →

16/05/2016 - 13:35

For readers unacquainted with the history of American foreign policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Thompson’s work... →

11/05/2016 - 17:05

Calling for the expulsion of Livingstone, Khan promised to be mayor “for all Londoners” and chided the party leadership for its failure to... →

06/05/2016 - 13:17

In May 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a law that mandated the transfer of the country’s complete set of archives, from... →

You are here