Science & Society

The government says the unemployment level is back at 2009 levels - but they use a metric that no one outside government would consider valid, namely how many people collect unemployment checks.…

UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and actor Emma Watson launched the HeForShe Campaign at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 20th. Credit: EPA/JASON SZENES By Evita March, Federation…

Surveys are interesting and surveys can sometimes indicate what a certain number of people in a group might be thinking - but so can betting services. In the 2012 election, the Intrade betting…

'To be, or not to be' male or female? Maxine Peake plays Hamlet. Credit: Jonathan Keenan/Royal Exchange Theatre By Mareile Pfannebecker, University of Manchester The ghost, in this autumn’s Royal…

Knowing your DNA will is not a panacea. Credit: PA/Harvard University By Walter Gilbert, Harvard University Walter Gilbert won the Nobel Prize in 1980 in Chemistry for his contribution to sequence…

There is a downside to 'follow the money' arguments made by academics against scientists in pharmaceutical and oil companies - it comes back to haunt them also. A paper in PNAS finds that Americans…

What causes segregation? No one knows. No one even knows where the line is. For example, in science classes, there is worry that if there are not enough people 'like' an individual, they will feel…

Sarkeesian has been the focus of much online hatred since she started her website Feminist Frequency in 2009. Credit: Anita Sarkeesian By Jessamy Gleeson, Swinburne University of Technology Three…

Does this count as homework? Credit: Rob Boudon, CC BY By Mark Banks, University of Leicester The urge to make new music is alive and well among young people in the UK, but not always using…

Lord Toast. Credit: Catarina Mota, CC BY-NC-SA By Akshat Rathi, The Conversation and Flora Lisica, The Conversation The 24th Ig Nobel prizes were announced on September 18th. The prizes annually…