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Kobo fights Amazon with the one thing it has that the giant doesn't: friends

By Alex Hern - 16 Apr 2013

The Aura HD is a great bit of hardware, but that's not where the...
Google's strategy for winning the smartphone wars: don't fight the smartphone wars

By Alex Hern - 08 Apr 2013

Why beat Apple if you can make money from them?
What should I use instead of Google Reader?

By Alex Hern - 14 Mar 2013

The company is retiring its RSS reader. But there are some viable...
4G auction raises £1bn less than expected

By Alex Hern - 20 Feb 2013

£3.5bn has been pre-spent; just £2.35bn will be arriving in the...
New York Times hits back at Tesla Motors over fakery accusations

By Alex Hern - 15 Feb 2013

"His broadest charge is that I consciously set out to sabotage...
Did the NYT fake a breakdown of an electric car?

By Alex Hern - 14 Feb 2013

Incongruities revealed in the logs.

EU cap-and-trade system left to die by EU parliament

By Alex Hern - 19 Apr 2013

The ETS is dead, long live climate change.
Biosecurity agency cut by Labour experiences 1000 per cent increase in workload

By Alex Hern - 25 Feb 2013

The Tree Health Diagnostic and Advisory Service has experienced...
EU carbon permit scheme gets a sticking-plaster fix

By Alex Hern - 20 Feb 2013

Permits to be backloaded, constraining supply.
New York Times hits back at Tesla Motors over fakery accusations

By Alex Hern - 15 Feb 2013

"His broadest charge is that I consciously set out to sabotage...
The United Nations doesn't understand Venn diagrams

By Alex Hern - 13 Feb 2013

The UN has been making "venn diagrams". Oh dear.
Urban explorers highlight the decay of the highest voltage lab in the world

By Marie Le Conte - 05 Feb 2013

A group of urban explorers broke into the disused National...

The tree of secrets, shadows and scents

By John Burnside - 26 Mar 2013

In praise of the magnolia.
To see a live flamingo is to understand elegance

By John Burnside - 14 Mar 2013

Gravity is not just a limitation, but a potential partner in...
Crufts: Making dogs suffer for "beauty"

By Mimi Bekhechi - 06 Mar 2013

Competitions like Crufts encourage breeders to manipulate dogs'...
Reviewed: Field Notes from a Hidden City by Esther Woolfson

By Richard Mabey - 28 Feb 2013

Where the wild things are.
Learning not to despair when the rot sets in

By Alice Oswald - 20 Feb 2013

What's the difference between rot and decay?
China uses half the world's coal, but we still need to lead on climate change

By Alex Hern - 01 Feb 2013

It's no use waiting for developing nations to make the first move...

Don’t let the superbugs bite

By Michael Brooks - 27 Mar 2013

But don't despair - we might be struggling but we are not beaten...
Fracking: the new gold rush

By Michael Brooks - 21 Mar 2013

Can shale gas and fracking solve our energy crisis?
Welcome to the ekpyrotic universe

By Michael Brooks - 14 Mar 2013

No money back, no guarantee.
Four things you should know about the HIV "cure" before you get too excited

By Martha Gill - 04 Mar 2013

The baby might not even have been infected in the first place....
Wanted: One couple, extremely confident in their love for each other, to go to Mars

By Alex Hern - 28 Feb 2013

Dennis Tito wants to give you the trip of a lifetime.
What is David Livingstone's legacy, 200 years after his birth?

By Michael Barrett - 28 Feb 2013

David Livingstone’s life and death in Africa helped mould the...

The Supreme Court case which didn't break the internet

By Alex Hern - 17 Apr 2013

Do you "copy" a website just by reading it? No, thankfully.
What happens when engineers run the world?

By Aditya Chakrabortty - 09 Apr 2013

The global tech over.
A week on from the shuttering of Reader, does anyone trust Google yet?

By Alex Hern - 21 Mar 2013

Google lied, Reader died.
Generation X-rated owns the net

By Rafael Behr - 21 Mar 2013

Never has it been so easy for young children to watch violent...
Digital elite: A bleak vision of the future

By Sophie Elmhirst - 14 Mar 2013

Sophie Elmhirst meets Jaron Lanier.
Don't fear Facebook, pity it. It's a datavore with no data

By Alex Hern - 13 Mar 2013

Facebook can draw inferences from your likes. But who has any...

Kepler mission announces two exoplanets in the habitable "zone"

By Alex Hern - 19 Apr 2013

The planets are the right temperature and size to support liquid...
Watch the sun exploding in glorious 1080p HD

By Alex Hern - 22 Feb 2013

A beautiful NASA video of coronal rain.
How to take a self-portrait if you're a robot on mars

By Alex Hern - 08 Feb 2013

Curiosity has learned about the Myspace angle.
IDS and the skivers from Mars

By Michael Brooks - 07 Feb 2013

Why cutting money from benefits might not save anything in the...
Iran's Space Monkey is the Saddest Monkey You Will See Today

By Alex Hern - 28 Jan 2013

Unless you have looked up pictures of other space monkeys.
If you're going to mine in space, the last thing to do is bring minerals back down to earth

By Alex Hern - 23 Jan 2013

Miners! In! Space!

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