Giorgio Parisi's work has helped us tease predictable patterns from complexity. Sapienza Università di Roma/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2021 has been jointly awarded to Italy’s Giorgio Parisi, Japan’s Syukuro Manabe and Germany’s Klaus Hasselmann for their “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems”. WhenContinue Reading
A protest movement founded in Uganda in 2016 has exploded into a 7,000-strong force of eco-feminists to be reckoned withContinue Reading
Kosciech/Shutterstock Sitting by the edge of a river on a lazy summer’s day, the sky is a beautiful blue overhead. Lush greenery crowds the bank. The river is alive: minnows, coots and water voles fuss at the water’s edge. Amid this truly delightful scene, most eye-catching of all are theContinue Reading
For decades, scientists have unsuccessfully tried to prove that zapping the brain can treat depression. The results of an ongoing deep brain stimulation trial hint that it could workContinue Reading
Former slave owners moved to Devon from across the country and empire to retire in coastal resorts, a new book shows. Men and women who had enslaved men, women and children in the West Indies made their home – or second or third home – in the county after emancipationContinue Reading
The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic saw consumers flocking to the shops to urgently stock up on items such as toilet paper and pasta. This phenomenon, termed “panic buying”, is now happening again in Britain – but this time it’s fuel that people are after. Continued panic buying is onlyContinue Reading
Sarah Holmlund/Shutterstock This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast explores why experts are worried about AIs becoming addicts. You can read the text version of this in-depth article here. The audio version is read by Peter Hanly in partnership with Noa, News Over Audio. You can listenContinue Reading
Cookstoves and open fires are the main cooking and heating methods for three billion people globally. Each year, they cost millions of livesContinue Reading
Following her triumph in the recent US Open tennis tournament, Emma Raducanu was interviewed by Chinese media outlet CGTN and revealed that maths was her favourite subject at school. Raducanu told the interviewer she was “a numbers person” and really enjoyed the problem-solving aspect. The tennis player, who recently receivedContinue Reading
The current HGV driver shortage is the latest chapter in the UK’s supply chain jitters, disrupting wholesale food delivery, cancelling bin collections and leading to the panic buying of fuel. While there is a good chance the country will overcome this temporary problem, the driver shortage is calling into questionContinue Reading
