Photographer Jonas Kako travelled to Greenland to explore how mining for the rare earth elements and minerals that are vital ...

For the same reason, other babies are unlikely to interpret babbling as meaningful speech. What they may share, however, is the experience of taking turns making speech-like sounds. In that sense, ...

Feedback has discovered a subgenre of social media dedicated to cleaning, and isn't impressed by its proponents' latest object of ire ...

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon ...

Longer summers are allowing more king penguin chicks to bulk up and survive the winter, but the penguins' main fishing area is shifting further away as temperatures rise ...

A magnet small enough to fit in the palm of your hand can match the strength of some of the world’s most powerful magnets for the first time. But superconducting magnets that produce strong magnetic ...

Much will depend on how wet the towels are when hung out. If they have been spun nearly dry, portrait or landscape may not make much difference. But if they are very wet, water will slowly gravitate ...

Most fiction looking into a future where humanity faces extinction is bleak. That can’t be said for the beguiling Under the Eye of the Big Bird, written by Hiromi Kawakami and translated by Asa Yoneda ...

Keith Pearce wonders whether seafaring was developed as rising water levels submerged an accustomed overland journey. I understand that Indigenous Australian accounts of journeys between what is now ...

I was interested to read Ben Craven’s letter concerning Paul Whitely’s essay about the value of small changes in averting the climate crisis. Craven states that if every person and business in the ...

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The comment in your Leader that “The sleep industry, for one, could reorientate itself around helping people… understand that they are getting more and better sleep than they realise” seems naive: why ...