A circular economy could end waste – at the cost of our privacy

Elise Robert/Shutterstock In a circular economy, we wouldn’t have any waste or pollution. Instead, everything we make and all our byproducts would be reused or repurposed, helping to end the over-exploitation of our finite resources and damage to our environment and climate. To make this process profitable, the manufacturers ofContinue Reading

Why trust is vital to public health strategy

I Wei Huang/Shutterstock Trust is a crucial component of effective public health policy. It is also a two-way street. People need to trust the authorities – universities, employers, the government – that are asking them to behave in a certain way, but they also need to feel trusted by theseContinue Reading

The Conversation

The Czech Republic, which had been praised for its swift response to COVID-19 in the spring, is now topping global charts of new coronavirus infections and deaths per population. Authorities have failed to control new infections since cases started to increase in the summer. Despite almost three weeks of aContinue Reading

Rogue planets: hunting the galaxy's most mysterious worlds

An artist's impression of a gravitational micro-lensing event by a free-floating planet. JanSkowron/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw. Most known planets orbit a star. These planets, including Earth, benefit from the star’s warmth and light. And it is the light emitted from these stars which makes it possible for us toContinue Reading