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…
Reluctance to be tested puts large numbers of people potentially at risk from second largest cause of cancerMore than three quarters of eligible Australians are not being screened for bowel cancer despite it being offered for free, which is putting them at risk from the second biggest cause of cancer death in the country.A study,…
The G8 has the information and tools to prioritise nutrition in development, but it will have to create the right political environment to hold true to commitmentsThe G8 countries are being asked to make firm financial and strategic commitments to fight malnutrition on a scale never before imagined. Can they do it? If not, we…
Four women and four men made it through pool of 6,100 applicants for opportunity to take part in leading space missionsMembers of Nasa's newest astronaut class, a group that includes the highest number of women since the program began more than 50 years ago, have been speaking about their selection.The agency's 21st astronaut class, announced…
Radioactive glassy beads created by the first nuclear explosion may hold clues to earth's distant historyThe sun was rising as a teenage boy swung a metal wand back and forth. The Geiger counter hanging at his waist clicked, testifying to the radiation streaming from the ground and through his body.The White Sands Missile Range in…
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…
US policymakers love discussing it, but the debate on food aid reform is getting tedious. Emergency interventions will always be necessary, but it is time to shift our focus to long-term solutionsSince the global food price spikes of 2008-09 and the widespread riots that ensued, the world has begun to pay more attention to food…
Voyage by Solar Impulse – the first to fly by night as well as day – is designed to showcase clean energy technology It took nine minutes from the time the Solar Impulse first appeared in the midnight sky, lit up along the entire elegant swoop of its Airbus-size wings, to the moment the plane…
This week the podcast is dedicated to a feature interview with astrophysicist Jerry Ostriker. The Princeton professor joined forces with University of Cambridge scholar Simon Mitton to review our scientific understanding of dark matter in their book He...
Bertolt Meyer's amazing bionic hand controlled by an iPhone app is a glimpse of the advances being made in prosthetics. But in years to come, will everyone want one?Bertolt Meyer is used to being viewed as not fully human. Born with a stump where his left hand should have been, he spent his childhood wearing…
