The author of Cracked selects a battery of books that challenge received wisdom about mental illness and how to treat itI wrote Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good because of the huge gulf between what most people believe about psychiatric diagnoses and medications and what the evidence actually reveals. When I started…
Droughts, floods, sea-level rises and fiercer storms likely to undermine progress in developing world and hit food supplyMillions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned.Droughts, floods, heatwaves, sea-level rises and fiercer storms are likely…
Research by biotech companies is unlikely to be derailed by the patent ruling against Myriad Genetics last weekIn a decision that has confused the biotech industry, the US Supreme Court decided last week that naturally occurring human gene sequences are no longer patentable.In doing so, the court has put patent law in the US out…
Business and energy minister plans to announce initiative for raising further funds for sector at Paris air show on MondayThe government will vow to help Britain capitalise on fast-growing global demand for new aerospace technologies when it unveils plans for up to £25m of research funding at the Paris air show on Monday.The funds mark…
As the global population rises and food prices do too, many scientists are looking for alternatives to traditional foodstuffsEating insectsTwo billion people around the world, primarily in south-east Asia and Africa, eat insects – locusts, grasshoppers, spiders, wasps, ants – on a regular basis. Now, with food scarcity a growing threat, efforts are being made…
How self-healing concrete and 3D printing will transform buildings and many other sectors besidesBuildings will be very different because currently they are not very hi-tech. They are still made from concrete, steel and glass. The wiring and plumbing of a building will soon start to become integrated and grown like our bodies' nervous and digestive…
Sir Ian Wood will lead study into ways to extend life of ageing rigs, improve efficiency and extract hard-to-reach depositsThe UK's ageing North Sea rigs are facing "unprecedented challenges", the secretary of state for energy and climate change said on Monday as he announced a review into how to maximise oil production.Ed Davey said: "Although…
Freshly enrolled in Richard Branson's space programme, singer tweets he would like to make music video in zero gravityThere is a place where no customs officials will query your monkey, where no neighbours will complain about your driving, where there are no paparazzi to fight with, where your tour bus won't be raided for drugs.…
Sponsored feature: Undernutrition is one of the most neglected development issues. Sue George reports on how business and science are taking up the challengeShocking television images of starving people, saved from death by humanitarian food drops, have become all too common over the past few decades. But there are many children across the developing world…
The G8 summit is a real chance to clean up the mess that is international tax law | Vince Cable
Public faith in tax system has been seriously dented by the actions of a few top companies – which say they are just following the rules politicians make. So it's now up to politicians at the G8 summit to remake those rulesLeaders from the world's richest countries will gather in Northern Ireland on 17-18 Junewith…
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