Daniel Streicker/Julio Benavides
They kill thousands of animals and people every year by spreading rabies. New research findings could solve the problem.
Enough scaremongering.
nito
There is good reason to fear Brexit, but voting to stay in the EU is also a chance to restore the vision of the founding fathers.
NASA
NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission has had its funding cut. Here’s why politicians should think again.
If we don’t change the way we teach science and maths, we might come to regret it.
wavebreakmedia/www.shutterstock.com
It’s a mistake to allow teenagers to drop maths – it should be made compulsory at A-Level.
Why we must work out why some people respond exceptionally well to cancer treatments.
Phil and Pam Gradwell (to be)/Flickr
Some patients respond miraculously well to cancer treatment. It is high time we try to understand why.
The new normal.
EPA/Lukas Coch
Smoking kills. But the shocking warnings on plain packaging might not be the best way to get smokers to kick their habit.
Your turn.
Sam Greenhalgh
If you want to safeguard the licence fee and shore up public-service content, time to introduce democracy to the BBC.
‘Receiving you loud and clear.’
wavebreakmedia
Our heads are like radio receivers, and they can tune in to various different channels.
Brian Douglas/Icon Films
It places Davis in a continuing, living history of African-American sound, rather than planting him on a pedestal.
Filip Singer/EPA
It might face an uphill battle for the world to adopt the proposed name change.
Rabies rates are rising in Africa.
Andy Wagstaffe
New initiative with old handsets halves rates of the disease in southern Tanzania – and is being applied to other conditions, too.
Dublin mural.
Brian Lawless
The effects of the Dublin insurrection went much further than Ireland.
ESA
Working out how Mars’s carbon dioxide was turned into rock could help with carbon capture efforts on our own planet.
vitstudio/shutterstock.com
How has a retrovirus survived intact within the human genome for millennia, and how has it affected us?
There doesn’t need to be a choice between palliative care or assisted dying.
The assisted dying debate usually focuses on the moment of death - not those leading up to it.
Fife no more.
Graeme McLean
Longannet, the last coal-fired power plant in Scotland, has closed. It might be good news for climate change, but it also signals major problems ahead.
The mane event.
Varun Aditya
Forget fences and international agreements. This five-year study in the Serengeti has found the way forward.
Good luck, Merrick.
EPA/Michael Reynolds
In an act of defiance, Obama has nominated his choice for the Supreme Court. Perhaps he can learn from Reagan’s spectacular 1987 failure.
Accompanying an 1825 piece on the grave-robbing problem.
Looking Glass
Any idea who wins the title?
Robert Fico is struggling to form a coalition after a national vote.
EPA/Filip Singer
Mimicking fascists doesn’t help you win votes; it helps the fascists win votes.