Mono-disciplinary approaches at university have a long history, dating back to the formation of the first medieval universities, where teaching was often centered on specific disciplines, a legacy of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: What do you think of these statements: 'most scientists link high cholesterol with ...

Now comes a profoundly learned and widely honored man, demanding that humankind regroup all knowledge and reroute all learning. The shock: He is stark sane. The man is Edward O. Wilson. His demand is ...

All the wonderful accounts of the late E.O. Wilson’s insatiable curiosity and persistence in his quest for new insights to further our understanding and care of the world we inhabit have been properly ...

The idea of consciousness and its relationship between mind and brain have puzzled, bamboozled and flummoxed philosophers and scientists alike since the dawn of civilisation. They still do - ...

The refusal of many conservatives and libertarians to confront the reality of climate change has been a repeated subject of my blog posts over the years. The subject is a frustrating one for me ...

Consilience, a Private market SaaS provider enabling tokenization of Real Assets making private equity easy to access, has raised 79% (£319,235) of its £400,002 target from 44 investors (at the time ...

This year in January Amina J. Mohammed the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations noted the world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War; in March the ...

This is Consilience, a podcast from The Scientist magazine. I’m Ben Henry. Today, we’re talking with scientists about how to compare plants to animals—and whether or not we can use words we associate ...