A book that criticizes alternative medicine to treat conditions that have names but no criteria is controversial - because it runs up against a supplement and alternative medicine enabled by governments that believe science can't be trusted
Looks healthy, but still lacks the big predatory fish... how would it rate on the Promonitor Index? AF Johnson, CC BY-NC-SABy Andrew Frederick Johnson, University of California, San Diego
By Anton Wallner, Australian National UniversityOur understanding of heavy element production in supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system, may need to change following some discoveries we have made looking not to the skies, but deep under our oceans.Supernova explosions are one of the most violent events in our galaxy and are thought to produce elements essential for life such as iron and iodine but also some of the heaviest elements existing in nature.When a star goes supernova and explodes, these heavy elements are thrown out into space as dust and debris.
Fish vision just got more complex. Janderk, CC BY-SABy William Feeney, University of Cambridge
Climate science is right – but it isn't winning. NASA, CC BYBy Mathis Hampel, University of East AngliaScientists tell us the world is warming and that a climate catastrophe is imminent. They’re probably right. Yet climate change framed by scientists, politicians and economists as a straightforward pollution problem will neither convince skeptics nor advance the difficult decision-making process.
Put innovative farming techniques in the right hands. CGIAR Climate, CC BY-NC-SABy Sayed Azam-Ali, University of NottinghamAfrica will be able to feed itself in the next 15 years. That’s one of the big “bets on the future” that Bill and Melinda Gates have made in their foundation’s latest annual letter. Helped by other breakthroughs in health, mobile banking and education, they argue that the lives of people in poor countries “will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history”.
The Patriots ran away with the AFC Championship. What did deflated footballs have to do with it? USA Today Sports / ReutersBy Chad Orzel, Union College
Credit: Don DavisBy Claire Belcher, University of Exeter and Rory Hadden, University of EdinburghThe asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs set off an intense heat wave that briefly boiled the Earth’s atmosphere – but it didn’t burn off all the plants.
The government's ad promoting proposed changes to higher education. Is it legal? And if so, should it be? Youtube screen grab, CC BY-SABy Andrew Hughes, Australian National University
