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Why do more people die in hurricanes with female names?
Pragya Agarwal / September 18, 2019
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
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Why air travel is more sustainable than you think
Patrick Hall / September 18, 2019
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
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Trump's threat to nuke a hurricane is ludicrous—but could other outlandish schemes to fight extreme weather actually work?
Bill McGuire / September 12, 2019
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
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Now we’ve dispensed with the nonsense “gay gene” trope, let’s interrogate the way we talk about genetics and traits full stop
Philip Ball / September 4, 2019
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...
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Is critical infrastructure now vulnerable? Former GCHQ chief on the new cyber threat
Alex Dean / September 3, 2019
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
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Cybercrime: the numbers
Prospect Team / September 1, 2019
Businesses are exposed and criminals are profiting
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When, not if: a category-one cyberattack is just a matter of time
Margaret Beckett / August 30, 2019
Yet the government is still woefully underprepared. (This article features in Prospect's new cyber resilience supplement)
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Keep Huawei out
Isabel Hilton / August 29, 2019
The company should not be allowed further into our critical infrastructure. (This article features in Prospect's cyber resilience supplement)
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The vodka experiment that showed we're the same people when we drink
Kathryn Francis / August 28, 2019
While our emotional responses can be changed by alcohol, our experiment suggests that an individual's moral judgement remains much the same
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Cyber recruitment: don't forget diversity
Jo Platt / August 28, 2019
The cyber sector can deliver jobs for underrepresented groups. (This article features in Prospect's cyber resilience supplement)
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