Rejecting the world’s dumbest idiom.

Humanity’s most recent common ancestor and so-called genetic isopoint illustrate the surprising connections among our family trees

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‘Commonsense change’ looks to end current confusion and put ‘passengers first, not shareholders’ when services are disrupted Rail passengers whose trains are cancelled will have the immediate right to travel on other operators’ services to finish their journey without further charge, ministers have announced. The “commonsense change” will take effect from Sunday 20 September, ending the confusion in Britain where many pre-booked tickets are not valid on other firms’ trains. Continue reading...

QR codes, pacemakers and push-button locks - the battle of convenience vs security.

“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...

Small changes, outsized consequences: the hidden dynamics steering the energy transition

The energy addition framing has a point. But it draws the wrong conclusions.

JCVI noted in their cost-benefit analysis that willingness to pay privately increases with age

There’s been a deluge of misinformation recently about ponies on Dartmoor. Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s Tony Whitehead looks at the origins and potential impacts of the current “pony campaigning". He st...

The automated tool could be used to help journals vet submissions

The fastest distributed-solar rollout in the world happened almost entirely by accident.

Find out where you sit on the British political map across six dimensions.

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Questions about the culprit virus and its route of spread remain as health officials make plans for stranded passengers

People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts