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When President Obama last week tweeted that '97% of scientists agree: climate change is real, man-made, and dangerous' he drew the attention of his 31 million followers to the most recent study pointing to the consensus in climate science.

Penguins can move underwater with the speed of a swallow or swift, but cannot fly even as far as a chicken. How did a bird that in some cases shuffles 40 miles to its breeding grounds on unsuitable flippers end up losing its ability to fly there quickly?

Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. This cannot continue.

Alex Preston: More than 40 million people globally take an SSRI antidepressant, among them many writers and musicians. But do they hamper the creative process, extinguishing the spark that produces great art, or do they enhance artistic endeavour?

To mark the launch of McKenzie Wark's new book The Spectacle of Disintegration, Verso Books have offered Rhizome readers in the UK a chance to win a 3D printed Guy Debord action figure.

Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America's foremost thinkers. In this extract from his new book, he reveals some of the lessons life has taught him.

Every now and again, just sometimes, maybe, Star Trek ventures into some pretty dicey science territory.

An optical illusion can change the implicit biases of Caucasian people against people with darker skin, according to a study published in the August 2013 edition of Cognition.

In a 1968 plane crash, the US military lost an atom bomb in Greenland's Arctic ice. But this was no isolated case. Up to 50 nuclear warheads are believed to have gone missing during the Cold War, and not all of them are in unpopulated areas.

Andrew Brown: Some say our capacity for abstract thought is a cognitive trick, yet this argument undermines itself. Can we trust our reason?

Hadley Freeman: In publicly discussing her double mastectomy, the actor has challenged the celebrity industry to rethink its bizarre values – and she has done all women a huge service.

Good news, guys! Candy isn't going to make you fat or kill you or anything negative at all! Feast on M&M's like an 8-year-old on Halloween, because you're totally good on this one.Says a study funded by the National Confectioners Association, a trade group representing the candy, chocolate, and gum industry.

Austerity kills -- radical cuts destroy economies and lives, and the honest numbers and economics keep proving it.

From Simone de Beauvoir to Jimmy Savile, on the trail of the intellectual origins of the 'culture of abuse'.

A meteoroid has hit the moon's surface triggering a bright flash which was filmed by a Nasa telescope.

Witch doctors oppose law that could see them jailed, saying magic is part of country's culture.

These cells produce 10-50 watts of power per m2, and could be used to laminate the windows of skyscrapers, giving them an additional source of power. Or they could be printed onto materials such as steel, meaning they could be embedded into roofs of buildings.

Over 10 days in November 1983, the U.S. and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Now newly declassified documents reveal just how close we reached a mutual destruction -- because of an exercise.

Scientists have made an embryonic clone of a person, using DNA from that person's skin cells. In the future, such a clone could be a source of stem cells, for super-personalized therapies made from people's own DNA.

The rush to embrace and console every gay man who comes out is infantilizing and condescending — but it's a script written and promoted by GLAAD and reinforced by a sanctimonious establishment of gay men that rewards those who play by the rules — and punishes those who don't. Novelist Bret Easton Ellis on why he refuses to take his bitch-slapping lying down.