Is RFK right about US sperm counts?
Around the world, many countries are concerned about tackling the decline in birth rates and total fertility rates. The US is no exception. To ta...
Richard Thaler and The Winner’s Curse
In the later part of the 20th century, a pioneering group of economists started shaking up their academic field. These “behavioural economists” used ...
Is there a stock market crash coming?
For months, the share prices of tech companies have marched seemingly-ever upward, driven by fevered excitement about the potential of Artificial Inte...
Has there been a $50 trillion wealth transfer to the richest Americans?
Bernie Sanders says a vast amount of wealth - $50 trillion - has moved from 90% of the population to the wealthiest Americans since the 1970s. The fi...
Is RFK Jr right about China's diabetes rate?
The US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr is on a mission to make America healthy again. One of his health-promotion ideas is to reduce chronic i...
Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale?
Vlad III Dracula, the Wallachian Prince who became Bram Stokers inspiration behind his famous vampire 'Count Dracula,' was a brutal ruler. So brutal t...
Is your housework split sexist?
Do you ever have fights with your partner about who does more of the housework and whether it’s fair? Well data might have the answer. Corinne Low ...
Nobel economics prize 2025: What's the big idea?
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have been awarded this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The three are sharing 11 millio...
Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week: The Conservative party conference has been told that millions of people are gett...
Are 72% of prison inmates in Switzerland foreign?
In a recent speech to the UN, US president Donald Trump set out some remarkable figures on the proportion of inmates in European prisons who were fore...