Increasingly, mental health problems are labelled as an illness like any other. But can a focus on diagnoses, rather than experiences, harm as well as help?

This is not a clash over the science—it is a clash of paternalism about how much risk we should accept

Researchers found that investing in 16 low-carbon measures in cities could cut global urban emissions by 90 per cent by 2050 and has a net present value of almost $24 trillion

Statistical analysis showed that the death toll for severe hurricanes with more feminine names was much higher than that for hurricanes with masculine names—and it all comes back to implicit bias

The climate challenge is immense and the aviation industry often shoulders much of the blame. But rapid progress is being made towards more sustainable flying

Global heating and the resulting climate breakdown are making wild weather the new normal. Rather than resorting to fanciful mega-scale geoengineering, though, the real solutions are far more prosaic

A recent study shows there is no one gene that determines homosexuality, but confusion still lingers on the predictive power of our genetic constitution. Far more interrogation is needed before the...

David Omand says power grids and telecoms have been “pretty well reconnoitred” by hostile states. This article features in Prospect’s new cyber resilience supplement

Businesses are exposed and criminals are profiting

Yet the government is still woefully underprepared. (This article features in Prospect's new cyber resilience supplement)