Chuka Umunna
: Ed's Google Speech and What It Means for Responsible Capitalism
B.J. Epstein
: Down With the Matriarchy? What Matriarchy?
Dr Peter Bruggen
: Sir David Nicholson Resigns but if Many Bad Apples Remain, The NHS Might Be Rotten to the Core
Jack Butler
: Miliband Talks the Talk on Tax Avoidance - But Can Anyone Walk the Walk
Xenios Thrasyvoulou
: Is It Easier Than Ever to Start a Business?
Ever since machines were invented, it has been speculated that we too are machines. The rise of molecular biologyand molecular genetics,with its spect...
The role and political repercussions of human ego, emotions and sensibilities in state conduct and international relations are, less transient and more pervasive than it is often acknowledged. This paper analyses the concept of state emotionality and briefly discusses the theory of " Symbiotic Realism, " as a more comprehensive framework for interstate relations in our modern, connected and interdependent world that takes into account the role of emotionality in state behavior.
Not to be outdone by the moths, who can drive robots pretty well it turns out, the monkeys have gone one better. One has driven a robot... with his...
Not to be outdone by the moths, who can drive robots pretty well it turns out, the monkeys have gone one better. One has driven a robot... with his...
The fiscal cliff is a sort of prisoner's dilemma. Each player appears fixated on trying to rat to the electorate about the guilt of the other for the impending disaster. In the chaos following a fall down the cliff, the president and the Republicans each hope that they will escape with a light electoral sentence while the other is sent down for life.
Dr. Eben Alexander - who has worked at some of the most prestigious US medical institutions - has spoken of the need for a different "picture of reality" after he nearly died during a seven-day coma. His book "Proof of Heaven" has just been published.
As if criminals being able to extract sensitive information from our computers and smartphones wasn’t enough of a worry, now scientists have shown t...
African grey parrots are no bird brains - they can not only learn to talk, but they have outperformed human two-year-olds in a test of intelligent rea...
A dramatic rise in the use of compulsory admissions over the last two decades does not mean that psychiatric disorders have in their nature got worse, but that the prospects for those who have them seem more bleak. This is because a progressively starved, more disorganised NHS is less effectively caring.
As we veer into an age of hyper-awareness, the ethics of how we use such knowledge is more pertinent than ever. Otherwise we may be faced with a future where courtship involves clubbing each other over the head (verbally known as NLP), whilst sipping green smoothies laced with our 21st Century love-potions.
A brand new form of ‘gene therapy’ for Parkinson’s disease has excited experts today, after it was revealed that it could revolutionise the way ...
Art, Neuroscience and Reception was the theme of the latest symposium organised by Robert Devcic, Director of GV Art, London's foremost gallery dedicated to artists working at the nexus of art and science.
How do 'memory', 'mind' and 'consciousness' map on to circuits and networks of brain cells? And if these terms can indeed be expressed in neuroscientific terms, then where and how will the additional idea of 'identity' fit in?
Yesterday you were shy, bereaved, apathetic, eccentric. Today you are mentally ill. But don't worry. Nothing has changed except some new labelling ...
Drones guided by thought control raise the possibility of machines instead of men being blamed for military accidents and war crimes, a leading scient...
On Tuesday the Royal Society published a report called 'Brainwaves and the Law' into how developments in neuroscience may integrate into the legal sys...
Kirk Leech extols the alleged benefits of animal research. It is to be hoped that scientists bring greater intellectual rigour to their research than he does to his arguments.
If 'the science says' that children's brains are hardwired by the age of three, should we automatically believe this claim? Not according to speakers at an academic conference at the University of Kent this week.
I think it's time to get properly offended by the professionalisation of the toddler years. It should not be the government's role to replace our Mini-Mes with a bunch of Mini-Camerons, schooled in the art of jumping through official hoops before they can even use knives and forks.
