In the typ­ical hate crime, a group of bored and idle young­sters go out on a Sat­urday night to search for vul­ner­able vic­tims to bash. They might, for example, look … read more »

Of course, the ben­e­fits wouldn’t accrue to the wearer. Google would sell the data (suit­ably anonymised, of course). And your smart­phone already pro­vides a huge amount of detail about you. … read more »

Aca­d­e­mics face great expec­ta­tions but nothing com­pares to the pres­sure we put on our­selves, says Denise Horn

Our roster of legal experts gives their assess­ment of the supreme court’s his­toric deci­sion on Obama’s health­care law. Martha Davis: ‘If states opt out of Med­icaid expan­sion, it will be the … read more »

With the supreme court ruling Thursday on the con­sti­tu­tion­ality of the Afford­able Care Act, our experts call the outcome, 4–1.  

The devel­op­ment of a “nano-​​​​tattoo” by Heather Clark, an asso­ciate pro­fessor of phar­ma­ceu­tical sci­ences in North­eastern University’s Bouvé Col­lege of Health Sci­ences in Boston, US, could erad­i­cate the need for … read more »

Launching equip­ment into space is an expen­sive busi­ness: it costs $10,000 (£6,300) to lift every 0.45kg (1lb) of stuff into orbit. Making things smaller and lighter is, there­fore, a nat­ural … read more »

Launching equip­ment into space is an expen­sive busi­ness: it costs $10,000 (£6,300) to lift every 0.45kg (1lb) of stuff into orbit. Making things smaller and lighter is, there­fore, a nat­ural … read more »

One of the three can­di­dates in the race to head the World Bank has pulled out, calling the selec­tion process a “polit­ical exercise”.

One of the three can­di­dates in the race to head the World Bank has pulled out, calling the selec­tion process a “polit­ical exercise”.

Tuesday’s argu­ment on the indi­vidual man­date por­tion of the ACA went very well for oppo­nents of the health­care law. Paul Clement, rep­re­senting the states, is a bril­liant oralist, and he … read more »

The con­sti­tu­tional chal­lenge to the Afford­able Care Act (ACA) presents a real chance that the US supreme court will strike down a cen­tral part of an incum­bent administration’s agenda since … read more »