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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...

Would you swim in China's rivers?

By Sam Geall - 24 Jun 2013

A burgeoning popular interest in China's ecological problems has...
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...

Sea swims in England are all rocks, cliffs and shingle

By Sophie Elmhirst - 07 Aug 2013

In our Nature column, Sophie Elmhirst tips her toe along Dorset's...
Winged messengers: The precarious lives of birds

By John Burnside - 04 Aug 2013

That we can see reverence for birds as old-fashioned or...
Leader: Summer loving

By New Statesman - 25 Jul 2013

Enjoy the warm, bright days while they last.
Follow the flight of the blackpoll warbler

By Ruth Padel - 11 Jul 2013

Diversity is a mark of richness and environmental health - and...
Caitlin Moran on what makes us human: Sorry, snow monkeys – we win

By Caitlin Moran - 27 Jun 2013

Continuing our What Makes Us Human series, Caitlin Moran says...
Learning the locusts’ lesson

By John Burnside - 20 Jun 2013

We depend on insects for our existence, yet we abuse them...

We still don’t really know how bicycles work

By Michael Brooks - 06 Aug 2013

Forget mysterious dark matter and the inexplicable accelerating...
Medical futurology is no excuse for the UK's organ failures

By Michael Brooks - 18 Jul 2013

A mouse with a human liver is extraordinary indeed, but we should...
Why can't we do anything about the weather?

By Michael Brooks - 11 Jul 2013

It’s hard to fathom that the warmth you feel (or don’t feel)...
To be a scientist, you need a well-rounded education

By Michael Brooks - 04 Jul 2013

Of late, science has demonstrated why all types of knowledge lead...
George Osborne's phrasing on the welfare cuts is sly

By Martha Gill - 27 Jun 2013

Martha Gill's Irrational Animals column.
Why is science doing so poorly in the fight against cancer?

By Michael Brooks - 20 Jun 2013

We all know that doing the same thing over and over again and...

Diary: Internet trolls, Twitter rape threats and putting Jane Austen on our banknotes

By Caroline Criado-Perez - 07 Aug 2013

Caroline Criado-Perez starts the week in triumph as the Bank of...
The Bot Wars: why you can never buy concert tickets online

By Cal Flyn - 06 Aug 2013

Enterprising programmers are creating bots that can reserve, and...
The Writing on the Wall: How Facebook is destroying our capacity for political debate

By Jacob Mertens - 03 Aug 2013

The increasing trend for Facebook users to share pre-made images...
Why does it always come back to rape?

By Rhiannon and Holly - 31 Jul 2013

As the threats on Twitter to the likes of Caroline Criado-Perez,...
First they came for the porn stars: the problem with an online filter

By Martin Robbins - 30 Jul 2013

The idea that you can tackle misogyny with a porn filter or a...
"Babies are brilliant!": what's behind the increasing trend of social media baby bragging?

By Lulu Le Vay - 30 Jul 2013

Why do we feel the need to "share" pictures of children for...

Let’s go alien-hunting

By Michael Brooks - 25 Jul 2013

A group of researchers is lobbying for access to £1m of the UK’s...
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.

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