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Schoolchildren skipping class to strike, protests bringing city centres to a standstill: armed with dire warnings from scientists, people around the world dragged the climate emergency into the mainstream in…
Things are pretty dire right now. Giant swaths of my country are burning as I write this, at a scale unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Countless animals, including koalas, are…
This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade. Much like Oxford English Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” competition, the international…
US President Donald Trump is simultaneously an expert on wind power and completely baffled by it — by his own estimation, anyways. “I never understood wind,” Trump said during a…
You’ve likely heard about direct-to-consumer DNA testing kits. In the past few years, at-home genetic testing has been featured in the lyrics of chart-topping songs, and has helped police solve…
The speed at which our planet warms could impact local temperatures even more than the overall level of global warming itself, a new study suggests. This indicates that a global…