Category: Technology & Science

Jon Tennant gets excited by a 160,000,000 year old giant crocodile — and who wouldn’t?

Cory Doctorow leads the fight against the new vision of the World Wide Web, complete with DRM you can’t escape.

Dr Ricki Lewis returns with a column about the problem of race and ethnicity-based diagnostics.

Arzu Geybullayeva reports on the ways to get around the Turkish blackout of Wikipedia.

The broadband market is not a free market. That’s why people need net neutrality. Confused? Kate Tummarello explains for you.

Ricki Lewis reframes a discussion about wolf taxonomy into a discussion about the evidence for so-called “climate change.”

Andrew Farke considers some rules for scientists to behave well, culled from Asimov and Roddenberry.

48,000 people took part in trials for new drugs for multiple sclerosis, stroke, Alzheimer disease, migraine, epilepsy, insomnia, and Parkinson’s. No one knows what happened to them. Hilda Bastian takes the case.

Governments around the world were slow to get to grips with HIV/AIDS. But a big change came when they started understanding it not just as a health issue but as a security threat too. Alexandra Ossola investigates.

A scientist makes a fantastic fossil discovery but instead of hushing it up till it has been vetted, he posts it to social media. Then a wonderful collaboration begins. Andrew Farke writes.