A major new study has been published – one that provides much more certainty about the extent of future warming we might expect. Along with many other international climate scientists, it was led by my colleague, climate scientist Steven Sherwood from the University of New South Wales in Australia. So, …
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The message from the broader scientific literature on personality change is positive. People are adaptive, for example, people’s awareness tends to increase when they take on a demanding role, and their traits recover positively after leaving a difficult relationship, suggesting that we will find a way to cope with what …
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I am sitting in a hospital reception and my breath is clouding my glasses. A few minutes ago, I had been running through wet streets late for my date. As the doctors and nurses pass by on the way to work, I am aware that I don’t look particularly well. …
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Getty For less than a century, humans have been sending objects, both organic and inorganic, into space. We have not yet managed to travel beyond our galaxy, but our descendants will possibly find a way to travel to distant galaxies in the future. Although human exploration of space is in …
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Update from July 15 below, post originally posted on July 14. Announced by Tim Cook and his team at last month’s World Developer Conference, Apple’s move to ARM-based processors for its Mac computers is now public. In “about two years,” the transition will be complete, which probably means that any …
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