Science & Society

America talks a lot about body image, but only as it relates to girls. The war on thin women is in full swing, obesity is all the rage. Even lingerie companies have plus-sized models and when a…

Dr. Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) and Andrew (Miles Teller) in Whiplash By Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne A decade of piano lessons with a woman who never allowed my lack of passion, prowess or…

A new America? Warner Bros. Pictures By Peter Bloom, The Open University "Interstellar" has been praised for its attempt to make the “hard science” of astrophysics both accessible and exciting to a…

You're twice as likely to chat about vaping than you were in 2013. Tibanna79 By Robbie Love, Lancaster University Selfies were so 2013. But vaping’s in: Oxford Dictionaries have announced vape as its…

Jimi Hendrix is a member of the so-called 27 Club. A very exclusive club, as it turns out. EPA/Eduardo Miranda By Dianna Kenny, University of Sydney I refuse to join any club that would have me as a…

Vehicle fatalities are the most common cause of accidental death around the world. In the US alone, there are 30,000 deaths in car crashes each year.  Are there inequalities in those figures?…

It is a weekly event in epidemiology - some medical or health outcome is linked to socioeconomic inequality, as if more spending makes people healthy. With the Ebola crisis in Africa, there had been…

In America, and to a much less extent in Europe, there can be a lot of angst when an aerospace engineer wears the wrong shirt on television. Women have a great deal of power in western nations, so…

What's in a name? Apparently a lot. So much so that social mobility in England hasn't changed much since pre-Industrial times. After William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II at the Battle of…

Is there such a thing as a Facebook murder? Is it different than any other murder? Legally, it can be. From a common sense point of view, there is no 'hate crime' status that should make a…