快猫短视频

Editorial : Why the mind matters – PSYCHOLOGY has always had to fight for its place in the pantheon of “true” sciences. But the battle is getting harder. Last year Robert Walker, chairman of the US Congressional committee on science, declared that governm

Editorial : A millisievert a day . . . – WHEN Marie Curie made a whistle-stop tour of the US in 1921, interest in radium surged. Americans were soon flocking in their thousands to buy bottles of radioactive water, believing it would cure their aches and p

Editorial : Castration or incarceration? – THERE are some policies that politicians like to be seen toying with even though nobody in their right mind would dream of making them law. For years the idea of routinely castrating sex offenders fell squarely i

The truth is out there . . . – WHAT goes up must come down, if the textbook laws of gravity are to be believed. Are scientific reputations subject to the same rules? The two physicists who may鈥攐r may not, depending on which one of them you talk to&m

Editorial : Hopes for a healthier world – ANYONE who tries to put the health research priorities of the world for the next 25 years onto a rational basis deserves to win a prize for sheer audacity.

Editorial : Coming to the aid of the party – DO you know how to make parties go with a bang? If so, your advice could be in demand. Britain is planning what Michael Heseltine, the Deputy Prime Minister, promises will be “the greatest party of all time” to

Editorial : What price progress? – A RAPID increase in GDP is a sign of a healthy, booming economy, a source of national pride and envy by others. Right? After all, graphs showing GDP always decorate reports from governments and big international agencies

Editorial : A soft spot for drains – FOR years, scientists in British universities have been complaining about the decaying labs in which they work and the ever increasing cuts in cash for buildings, supplies and equipment. Now, however, they have found a

Editorial : How to turn humans into guinea pigs – IF you want to develop drugs to treat human diseases, then the ideal subjects are, naturally enough, humans. No other animal shares all our biochemistry so we can never be sure that a drug that works on an

Editorial : And now, a word from the sponsors . . . – IT can’t be easy selling a product that has a good chance of killing you, or at least ruining your health, but tobacco companies certainly don’t give up easily. Advertising cigarettes on TV was banned

Editorial : Media studies is the message – ONCE again the results of the school examinations are out and once again they seem to show that teenagers are turning away from science. At A level, the percentage of students studying physics was down 5.7 per ce

Editorial : Lonely little Earthlings – “WE believe that wherever this meteorite originated, something lived,” says the New York Times, quoting scientists involved in discovering that a meteorite contained complex hydrocarbons and the imprint of f

Editorial : Trafalgar Square, anybody? – ARE you appalled by the lack of public interest in science? Horrified by the way young people are turning away in droves? Shocked by the growing distrust of scientists and scientific opinion? Dismayed that comparat

Editorial : Dread and loathing in the technostate – THERE should be a special word for the feeling of dread caused by reading the works of macroeconomists. As the pages turn, you gradually realise that you are merely the tiniest of tiny cogs in a global m