Can't Touch This

Malaysian NGO Friends of the Orangutans has alleged that the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sabah is flouting rules which dictate best practice for great ape tourism in their centre. Wildlife tourism is great, but are we causing the wildlife more harm than good?

Don’t Call Me, Maybe?

More and more people seem to avoid phone calls in favour of messaging or emails. We discuss why.

Facebook and Google a threat to human rights?

A new report by Amnesty International has warned that Facebook and Google’s omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights. Is it time for a radical transformation of the tech giants’ core business model?

The KonMari Con?

Fancy a RM300 tuning fork? A RM100 crumb brush? It comes with the KonMari stamp of ‘sparking joy’. But why is the Japanese guru of decluttering trying to sell us more things?

A Sand Predicament

Sand – it’s the tiny grains that crunch under our feet as we walk on the beach. It’s in our buildings and roads. And it’s a primary raw material in making the glass screens and the silicon chips in your smartphone. But did you know the world is running out of sand?

Extraterrestrial Sugars

NASA announced earlier this week that sugar molecules have been found in a couple of meteorites that are being studied. Why does this get our geeky little hearts fluttering? Because it could be a part of the answer to that eternal question, where did life originate?

Stop Touring for the Sake of Mother Nature?

Coldplay announced last week that they would be putting plans to tour for their new album on hold until concerts are ‘environmentally beneficial’. So we take a closer look at how organisers can take steps to reduce the carbon footprint of events.

Science and Arts are Not Worlds Apart

Did you know that space researchers have been working with artists, on their mission to decode the universe’s mysteries? We discuss how art could actually help advance science.

Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright

India’s government claims that their tiger population has risen by a third, in just the last four years. Going by those estimates, the country could quadruple the world’s tiger population through its conservation efforts. But do those efforts have to include killing the maneaters? The answer as you…

Human Extinction? That's OK

One would imagine that the thought of humankind going extinct would be troubling to, well humankind. But a team of researchers from the University of Oxford found that people don't seem to find the loss of humanity as uniquely tragic. We explore why.