The idea that tiny amounts of antidepressants present in our rivers and estuaries may be affecting aquatic life is generally met with surprise, sometimes scepticism, or even a degree of humour. The public…
This week, NASA has discovered great similarities between the Earth and Mars and Pluto. But when it comes to the potential for life, Mars is an increasingly hot favourite.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is as much an imperial power as its Soviet and Tsarist predecessors were.
Earthquake lights are among nature’s most strange, most ephemeral, and hard-to-explain phenomena. While rare, and only recently accepted by science, they have been reported for hundreds or even thousands…
Drugs are finding their way into lakes and rivers, and we need to know exactly what they’re doing to wildlife.
The famous American gothic author’s death has long remained a mystery – but new research sheds some light on the ‘suicide hypothesis’.
Song by song streaming services may be hurting the album commercially, but its place in our cultural lexicon will be harder to shake.
It is the physics discovery of the century – even bigger than the Higgs Boson. Here’s how it happened and what it means, by a key member of one of the lead teams
How the artist found endless variety in the daily view from his bed, cycling through the seasons with kaleidoscopes of light, colour, texture, form and space.
Progress, in historical terms, has so often meant clearing places of their native inhabitants – both human and non-human.
