We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

How the social brain hypothesis undermines hereditarianism

How the social brain hypothesis undermines hereditarianism

The Credibility Crisis in Science by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer explores how researcher incentives and publication bias distort scientific knowledge

Nature Human Behaviour - Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions

Exclusive: Cambridge research finds socioenvironmental stressors may influence body’s ability to function healthily in pregnancy Stress from racism and deprivation could explain why black women are more likely to die during childbirth, a study has found. Researchers reviewed 44 existing studies that examined three physiological pathways associated with worse pregnancy outcomes: oxidative stress, inflammation, and uteroplacental vascular resistance, and found black women had higher levels of the three metrics. Continue reading...

In Gent vond donderdagavond een lezing plaats van de omstreden Amerikaanse ‘rassenwetenschapper’ Nathan Cofnas. Zo’n dertig mensen werd de toegang geweigerd, Cofnas beweert na de lezing te zijn aangevallen. “Ik dacht dat wij een universiteit waren die kritisch omgaat met dat soort ideeën. Nu geven we ze gewoon een podium.”

The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

Debuts dominate the fiction offering this month, with non-fiction reflecting the shifting times we live in

An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition

There is a widespread belief that altruism and equality drive social behaviour in traditional hunter-gatherer societies, but the truth is more surprising and complex

Background: Trust is an essential element in engagement with data sharing and underpins efforts to use data to combat health inequalities. Research into public trust in data sharing and healthcare set...

Susan Tansey, Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, reflects on recent changes to the COVID-19 vaccine eligibility and how the management of this could impact on public trust in decision makers...

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

Learn how to use R, {brms}, and {marginaleffects} to analyze conjoint data and find causal and descriptive quantities of interest, both frequentistly and Bayesianly

The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

Opinion | Instead of trying to extend the lives of a privileged few, we should invest in improving the lives of all people today.

Humanity’s innate treachery is behind social ills ranging from inequality to abuse of power. Lessons from our ancestors can help defeat the enemy within

It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist them

Podcast · Cambridge Public Heath · We explore the public health implications of modern housing. With global warming creating unsafe living environments across the world, new tower blocks that do not a...

Colossal Biosciences’s "de-extinction" news is just the latest in a slew of eyebrow-raising claims by privately funded researchers. Is the bar for belief lower when those making the claims have a lot ...

Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa...

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

In an era of open data, genome-wide association studies have become entangled with efforts to prove Black inferiority.