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Environmental practices of big businesses
Silbo Gomero – the whistle ‘language’ of the Canary Islands
The return of the huarango
The arid valleys of southern Peru are welcoming the return of a native plant
Why fairy tales are really scary tales
Some people think that fairy tales are just stories to amuse children, but their universal and enduring appeal may be due to more serious reasons
The Desolenator: producing clean water
Henry Moore (1898–1986)
The British sculptor Henry Moore was a leading figure in the 20th-century art world
Having a laugh
The findings of psychological scientists reveal the importance of humour
Should we try to bring extinct species back to life?
Could urban engineers learn from dance?
Plant ‘thermometer’ triggers springtime growth by measuring night-time heat
A photoreceptor molecule in plant cells has been found to have a second job as a thermometer after dark – allowing plants to read seasonal temperature changes. Scientists say the discovery could help breed crops that are more resilient to the temperatures expected to result from climate change
Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence
Changes in reading habits
What are the implications of the way we read today?
Roman tunnels
The Romans, who once controlled areas of Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor, adopted the construction techniques of other civilizations to build tunnels in their territories
Climate change reveals ancient artefacts in Norway’s glaciers
Roman shipbuilding and navigation
I contain multitudes
Wendy Moore reviews Ed Yong’s book about microbes
Why we need to protect polar bears
A unique species of seahorse
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Timur Gareyev – blindfold chess champion
Does education fuel economic growth?
Bats to the rescue
How Madagascar’s bats are helping to save the rainforest
Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan’s Skyscrapers
Katharine L. Shester reviews a book by Jason Barr about the development of New York City
Insight or evolution?
Two scientists consider the origins of discoveries and other innovative behavior
A second attempt at domesticating the tomato
To catch a king
Anna Keay reviews Charles Spencer’s book about the hunt for King Charles II during the English Civil War of the seventeenth century
Stadiums: past, present and future
The development of the London underground railway
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Alfred Wegener: science, exploration and the theory of continental drift
by Mott T Greene
The case for mixed-ability classes
The steam car
The successes and failures of the Doble brothers and their steam cars
Materials to take us beyond concrete
Concrete is everywhere, but it's bad for the planet, generating large amounts of carbon dioxide - alternatives are being developed
An ideal city
Leonardo da Vinci’s ideal city was centuries ahead of its time
Living with artificial intelligence
Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) needs to be reliably aligned with human values, but does this mean AI will eventually have to police those values?
Conquering Earth's space junk problem
Satellites, rocket shards and collision debris are creating major traffic risks in orbit around the planet. Researchers are working to reduce these threats
Forest management in Pennsylvania, USA
How managing low-quality wood (also known as low-use wood) for bioenergy can encourage sustainable forest management
Ahead of its time
A chance discovery in New Zealand has challenged the country's recorded history
The Unselfish Gene
A psychologist gives his view on how humans became self-centred
Is the era of artificial speech translation upon us?
Once the stuff of science fiction, technology that enables people to talk using different languages is now here. But how effective is it?
An inquiry into the existence of the gifted child
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The persistence and peril of misinformation
Brian Southwell looks at how human brains verify information and discusses some of the challenges of battling widespread falsehoods
The pirates of the ancient Mediterranean
In the first and second millennia BCE, pirates sailed around the Mediterranean, attacking ships and avoiding pursuers
The power of persuasion
A New Zealand restaurateur assesses some recent research from the USA
A unique golden textile
A two-man project to use spider silk is achieved after 4 years
Multiple intelligences
The implications of multiple intelligence theory for teachers
Growing more for less
Satellite technology is helping farmers boost crop yields
Advertising needs attention
The harder advertisers try to get your attention, the more your brain ignores them
How a prehistoric predator took to the skies
Is that a bird in the sky? A plane? No, it’s a pterosaur. Kate Thomas meets Professor Matthew Wilkinson, who built a life-size model to find out how this prehistoric predator ever got off the ground
The last man who knew everything
Preserving Antarctic History
Protecting early buildings in Antarctica
When Maps were Made for the Public
Pacific navigation and voyaging
How people migrated to the Pacific islands
The dingo debate
Graziers see them as pests, and poisoning is common, but some biologists think Australia’s dingoes are the best weapon in a war against imported cats and foxes.
How to find your way out of a food desert
Ordinary citizens have been using the internet to draw attention to the lack of healthy eating options in inner cities
Yawning
Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in New Zealand
Australian parrots and their adaptation to habitat change
Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in New Zealand
When people are deaf to music
Uncovering the secret of quality
Science and the Stradivarius
Uncovering the secret of quality
Answers Underground
Burying greenhouse gases to slow global warming
A new stage in the study and teaching of history
Developmental Tasks of Normal Adolescence
The dark side of the technological boom
What are the effects on the individual of working in modern technological workplaces?
Should space be explored by robots or by humans?
Inside the mind of a fan
How watching sport affects the brain
Renewable Energy
*An insight into the progress in renewable energy research*
The Wonder Plant
Bamboo is used for a wide range of purposes, but now it seems it may be under threat.
How should reading be taught?
By Keith Rayner and Barbara R Foorman
Photovoltaics on the rooftop
A natural choice for powering the family home
Bovids
American companies fear that innovation is the secret of success-and that they cannot innovate
Fear of the Unknown
American companies fear that innovation is the secret of success-and that they cannot innovate
Insect decision-making
The largest Roman villa in Britain
Fishbourne Roman Palace
The largest Roman villa in Britain
Improving Patient Safety
How improved drug packaging could provide some answers to patient safety issues
Sweet Trouble
Problems in the Australian sugar industry
The strange world of sight
Seeing is believing, it is said. But, asks Richard Gregory, could it be the other way round?
The gender gap in New Zealand's high school examination results
Results from New Zealand's new national examinations for secondary schools are giving that country some cause for concern
What Lucy Taught Us
A scientific finding in east Africa has changed our understanding of how humans have developed
The return of monkey life
Rain forest trees growing anew on Central American farmland are helping scientists find ways for monkeys and agriculture to benefit one another.
Innovation in Business
Indigenous necklaces in Tasmania
Jewels from the sea
Indigenous necklaces in Tasmania
Crossing the Threshold
The renovated Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand unites old and new, creating an irresistible urge to step inside
Violins and very cold weather – a hypothesis
Lloyd Burckle and Henri D Grissino-Mayer suggest a link between the great Italian violin-makers and a mini ice-age 300 years ago
The art of deception
Do tiny changes of facial expression show whether someone is telling lies?
Marketing And Mind Control
How marketing and advertising appeal to the associative nature of the brain
Skyscraper Farming
With a global food crisis predicted, a group of scientists is advocating an innovative alternative to conventional farming that could radically transform the way that food is produced .
The pesticide-free village
Gerry Marten and Dona Glee Williams report on reliance on the Indian village of Punukula, so nearly destroyed by reliance on pesticides.
New filter promises clean water for millions
Irish ELK
Toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
Voyage of going: beyond the blue line 2
Keeping the water away
New approaches to flood control
A New Voyage Round the World
A very old travel book that holds an unusual place in English literature
Children’s comprehension of television advertising
How children understand and respond to advertising on television
An important language development
Cuneiform — the world’s first known system of handwriting
The role of accidents in business
How chance discoveries and mistakes have led to major innovations and business success.
Orientation of birds
How birds navigate over long distances and return to their nests with remarkable precision.
The Clipper Races: an era of competition between cargo ships
The story of how speed became the key to success in the nineteenth-century tea trade.
What makes a musical expert?
How does someone become expert in music? And is it really possible to have a ‘talent’ for music?
The discovery of a baby mammoth
A near-perfect frozen mammoth offers clues to a great vanished species
The development of the silk industry
Silk, a natural fibre produced by a particular worm called a silkworm, has been used in clothing for many centuries.
Rebranding Art Museums
Changing expectations of modern museum spaces
The Discovery of a Baby Mammoth
A remarkable find in Siberia
Ensuring our Future Food Supply
Climate change and the urgency of preserving seed diversity
The hazards of multitasking
Doing more than one thing at once – is it always a good idea?
The Blockbuster Phenomenon: a new museum trend
Museums in Australia, like other pleasure-giving public organizations, are adapting their activities so that they more closely reflect the marketplace
Petrol power: an eco-revolution?
How sleep helps us learn
Researchers are uncovering the link between seep and learning and how it changes throughout our lives
Radiocarbon dating
A profile of the scientist Nancy Athfield
Looking for inspiration
Helen Phillips asks what makes one person more creative than another
The aerofoil
The shape of an aeroplane's wing plays a key role in the achievement of flight
The growth of agriculture
Some developments in Western agriculture from prehistory to the nineteenth century
Australia's camouflaged creatures
Many species of animal in Australia protect themselves by using camouflage-a way of 'hiding' by blending into the surroundings
Blind to Change
How much of the world around you do you really see?
The attraction of video games
The world's love of video games has much to do with people's desires and motives
Mungo Lady and Mungo Man
Controversies in Australian Prehistory
Jean Piaget 1896 – 1980
Symour papert looks at the work of pioneering Swiss philosopher and psychologist
Intelligent behaviour in birds
Many people are aware of the intelligence of chimpanzees and other mammals. However, birds also demonstrate intelligent behaviour
Wood: a valuable resource in New Zealand's economy
Biology of Bitterness
To many people, grapefruit is palatable only when doused in sugar. Bitter Blockers like adenosine monophosphate could change that.
Urban Regeneration: an award-winning redevelopment project in Berlin
The Pirahã people of Brazil
The Pirahä language has stirred up debate among experts
Jellyfish – The Dominant Species
Deep sea discovery
Recent research has provided new insights into how fish communicate
Saving the Skink
What can be done to save the skink, one of New Zealand's most endangered lizards?
Will Eating Less Make You Live Longer?
The latest in a conflicting series of studies suggests calorie restriction could potentially slow ageing in humans
Reef fish study
Tom Holmes examines the relationship between size and survival in fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Living dunes
Things don't come much stranger than heaps of sand that can move and sing of their own accord. Sally Palmer investigates
The Myth of the Eight-hour Sleep
Rubber
T and W Musgrove discuss the origins and early uses of rubber
Playing with science
Is science always a serious matter? No, says Pierre Laszlo, who believes that scientists are often just like children at play
The early history of olive oil
Carnivorous plant
They attract insects and then eat their flesh. Is that any way for a plant to behave?