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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 "snooper's charter" showed just what the Government is capable of

By Dr Richard Clayton - 30 Apr 2013

The proposed "Filter" programme would have been a vast step up in...
"Instagram act" under fire for treatment of copyrighted works

By Alex Hern - 29 Apr 2013

Is the Government handing your photos to media giants?
Happy Ed Balls day, one and all

By Caroline Crampton - 28 Apr 2013

We just can't leave that infamous tweet alone.
Spotted on Facebook: a sexist and degrading form of cyber-bullying in disguise

By Rosaleen Fenton - 27 Apr 2013

A new trend of "Spotted" Facebook pages is allowing people space...
Wikipedia wars: are there really novelists and 'women novelists'?

By Sarah Ditum - 26 Apr 2013

How many brilliant writers will be sorted away entirely, never...
Reddit matures, and apologises

By Alex Hern - 23 Apr 2013

The site's general manager has apologised for its conduct during...

Modern life is science fiction – but would you dare go on a one-way mission to Mars?

By Laurie Penny - 30 Apr 2013

Would you sign up for a perilous journey, knowing that you’ve got...
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.

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