A gallerist and an economist walked into an art gallery opening. The paintings on display featured the rape of dismembered corpses. The economist was horrified, but the gallerist said the work was good and the artist had a promising career. The gallerist…

Wonder Woman 2 will be the first film to employ the PGA’s anti-sexual harassment guidelines

I recently finished reading “The Design of Everyday Things” – a classic book that gets you thinking about everyday “user interface” around you – doors, gadgets, …

To better understand the distant past, it can help to taste and smell it.

We’ve been tuned into coin cell designs lately given the coin cell challenge, so we were interested in [CNLohr]’s latest video about pushing the ESP8266 into the lowest-possible battery…

One of the great thrills of curating our blockbuster exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, has been choosing the exhibits and revisiting some of our favourite manuscripts. When we were planning the show, I often used to impress people by mentioning…

SpaceX needs Air Force support.

The journalist’s war on the Russia investigation.

‘I wish I could guarantee that the positives are destined to outweigh the negatives.’

The dominance of Google, Facebook and Amazon is bad for consumers and competition

The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty evaluated hypothetical female and male applicants, using…

In post-coup attempt Turkey, being linked to a secretive messaging app has cost thousands of Turks their jobs, their freedom or worse, writes Nil Köksal.

Nike’s new shoes light up and are PlayStation themed

Captain Montagu Sinclair Wellby (1866-1900) was already a veteran of several exploratory expeditions when he set out from the Abyssinian (now Ethiopian) capital Addis Ababa on his marathon journey in December 1898. Along the way he produced a series of nineteen…

And a big education push for 2018

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Today, none of Google’s employee-facing applications are on a virtual private network. They all have public IP addresses. The company