We speak to Philip Lymbery about why back-to-basics regenerative farming would help feed the world's growing population and fight climate change
We often see science and intuition as antithetical but history is filled with examples where a scientist’s intuition has led to discovery
There have long been hopes that nuclear fusion could provide a fountain of green energy – but recent advances can't obscure the scale of the challenge
New research suggests that women have become parents at a younger age than men throughout human history - but it doesn't explain the reason
Researchers at TNO Defence have pioneered a new method of using plants to detect the use of chemical weapons
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is being constructed below Sanford Lab in South Dakota, in hopes of revealing key information about the mysterious neutrino particle
The R21 vaccine, approved so far by Ghana and Nigeria, is an achievement 80 years in the making
It’s 70 years since two men declared they had cracked DNA, erasing key contributions by women, including Rosalind Franklin, Florence Bell and Martha Chase
Nature is obsessed with enforcing a principle known as 'local gauge symmetry' - but we still don't know why
Tech billionaires harbour an escapist fantasy that, with enough money, the elite can leave behind the messy debris of real life and start afresh, either in the real world or in some kind of virtual reality - hence Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos's space ambitions - writes Douglas Rushkoff in his new book
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