Good news today for those in Britain fighting for compensation from US drug giant Merck. As Jim Giles reported in January, relatives of British people who suffered heart attacks and other health...

In this month's Prospect podcast (also available on the right of this page), our resident philosopher Nigel Warburton examines the ambiguous role of thrift in defining the good life. As Warburton...

Astronomy has big ambitions. Soon its new telescopes will stretch across continents

More than one in ten Caucasians may have a "Churchill gene" which helps them turn booze into great works

A nuclear revival might stop climate change. But it can revive British manufacturing too

By any measure, the global statistics on spam email are staggering: with some 200 billion junk emails sent every day, they now constitute more than 90 per cent of all global email traffic. Isn't...

There's long been speculation about the existence of a mysterious "Churchill gene" which enables some people to remain healthy and brilliant despite alcohol consumption that would kill others. Other...

America may be moving to the left under Obama; indeed, as Newsweek put it, Americans are "all socialists now" and due to become "even more French" in the decade to come. Despite this, it's still...

The internet is getting good at tracking deadly viruses, once they emerge. Today's news is full of interactive charts and infographics charting the spread of swine flu, while flu discussion is...

A new plan to give away trade secrets could improve big pharma's awful reputation