Science
Trump officials fire 800 employees at weather forecasting and oceans agency
By Ella Nilsen and Tami Luhby
Feb 28, 2025
The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around...
The physics of death in Gaza
By Qasem Waleed El-Farra *
May 1, 2024
Physics is based on questioning.
Questioning the origin of the universe.
Questioning time.
Questioning the nature of matter.
As a physicist based in Gaza, I have...
Monster trans capitalism
Trans-women’s milk as good as breast milk, says NHS trust
Drug-induced ‘chestfeeding’ liquid ‘comparable’ to that from mothers when it comes to baby nourishment, claim...
A disturbing 1995 prediction by Carl Sagan accurately describes America today
A quote from a 1995 book by astronomer Carl Sagan describes a world many find disturbingly similar to ours.
By Paul Ratner
This article was first...
Climate change deniers
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By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
The spread of various “conspiracy theories” is consistently backed by big multinational fossil fuel companies and various political lobbies.
In a previous article,...
The New Imperialist Structure
by Samir Amin
Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. What I mean by that is that monopolies no longer form islands (important as...
The Promethean Antikythera Computer of Greek Civilization
by Evaggelos Vallianatos
Apr. 25, 2023
Overview
Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the...
Nuclear Fusion: reality, illusion or a military project?
Despite the hype, we shouldn’t bank on nuclear fusion to save the world from climate catastrophe
By Robin McKie
Dec 17, 2022
The revelation that researchers had...
Scientists urged to de-gender human remains
By Akash Maurya
July 19, 2022
LGBT activists and academics argue researchers can’t know how ancient individuals identified themselves
A number of LGBT activists and academics are...
Legacy of the Antikythera computer
The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first computer, has had a lasting impact on scientists and thinkers across the world.
By Evaggelos...