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Mike Berners-Lee is a researcher and writer on carbon footprinting. He is a Professor in Practice at Lancaster University and author of books including A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It and How To ...

The idea that we might attempt large-scale experiments to cool the planet is horrifying to some, but it looks increasingly ...

Our readers delve back millennia to answer this one, looking at the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Egyptians to ...

From a silhouetted space station to glowing comet tails and swirling stars, this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the ...

The Wild Ones follows three experts out to capture video of species including the Gobi bear and the Javan rhinoceros. It is a ...

Position two coins in a row, one on the left and the other on the right. Each move, you may do one of the following actions: ...

Lara Lewington's Hacking Humanity looks at the fabulous technology that is changing healthcare. But where is the critical ...

This giant white wall looming over the village of Innaarsuit in Greenland isn’t a mountain, but a huge iceberg that has ...

If you visit Paris, you must see Wolfgang Tillmans’s Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us at ...

It helps keep them warm, say our readers – but the flamingo is most famous for standing on one leg, and warmth is unlikely to be the reason it adopts this posture ...

Why can squirrels run straight down a tree, and could my cat do the same thing if it had to? Also, why are at least four faces required to make a flat-faced solid in 3D?