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Completing the PRISM jigsaw puzzle

By Alex Hern - 13 Jun 2013

The NSA takes such great quantities of data legally that it has...
The three most important things you missed in the Apple keynote

By Alex Hern - 11 Jun 2013

The signals sent below the watermark.
Why the world needs better loos

By Helen Lewis - 05 Jun 2013

Somehow I don’t think I’ll get many takers for my next Faeces Are...
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...

How two farm-boys-done-good could change the world

By Michael Brooks - 17 May 2013

While everyone loves Commander Chris Hadfield, it's Iowan James...
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.

Our ash trees are dying, but don't despair: catastrophes are natural events in the lives of trees

By Richard Mabey - 07 Jun 2013

Dutch elm disease is a tragic thing to watch, but we shouldn't be...
Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards: Where does all this rhapsodising over badgers and briar get us?

By Alice O'Keeffe - 30 May 2013

Since Roger Deakin and Robert Macfarlane's success, it is now...
Hope is a thing with feathers

By Ruth Padel - 30 May 2013

Birds are all around us. They appear and disappear; they go...
Leader: The silence of the bees

By New Statesman - 30 May 2013

We should fight for the honeybee's survival.
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...

It’s all gone pear-shaped

By Michael Brooks - 14 Jun 2013

The Higgs boson was small beer. Exploring the properties of the...
Notes from a cardiologist: Unravelling the mystery of Benjamin Britten’s heart

By Hywel Davies - 14 Jun 2013

Cardiologist Hywel Davies describes the origins of the syphilis...
Answers to war

By Juan Manuel Santos - 13 Jun 2013

We have been fighting the war on drugs for 40 years at great cost...
The time of your life

By Michael Brooks - 06 Jun 2013

A discussion with Lee Smolin.
It’s only natural – let’s make it better

By Michael Brooks - 30 May 2013

If we can improve, we should.
The third culture: The power and glory of mathematics

By Ian Stewart - 21 May 2013

In 1959 C P Snow delivered a celebrated lecture in which he...

Commander Chris Hadfield says goodbye to the International Space Station through the medium of David Bowie

By Alex Hern - 13 May 2013

Highest music video since Snoop Dogg's last one.
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...

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