Opinion

Saturday 27/August/2016 18:08 PM

The future of the anti-doping fight

Elite sports and doping have long been deeply interlinked. But the damning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Russia’s far-reaching...

Saturday 27/August/2016 17:55 PM

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and newborns

King Henry VIII, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, all lost their mothers to infections following childbirth, and literature...

Saturday 27/August/2016 17:44 PM

Sarkozy’s campaign of fear

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s announcement that he will seek the presidency again in 2017 should come as no surprise. Indeed, it was hard to...

Saturday 27/August/2016 17:31 PM

How big can China's cities get?

By any measure, Shanghai is one of the world's biggest cities. It's home to more than 24 million people. Its subway system is the longest ever...

Wednesday 24/August/2016 16:24 PM

Trump never really had an immigration policy

Donald Trump made a seemingly momentous announcement on Monday, jettisoning a presidential campaign's worth of assertions that he would deport millions...

Wednesday 24/August/2016 16:12 PM

Vaccines for an aging population

The world’s population is getting bigger – and older. With the elderly increasingly close to outnumbering their younger counterparts – by 2050, there...

Wednesday 24/August/2016 16:02 PM

Reducing inequality and poverty in America

With a new American president and Congress taking office just six months from now, the time has come to rethink the government’s programmes aimed at...

Wednesday 24/August/2016 15:32 PM

Migrant crisis: Watching the horizon

We are floating at 33°14'88.8" North, 13° 22'51.8" East, in the Mediterranean sea, about 20 nautical miles east of Tripoli, Libya. Out...