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Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

Four new books show that, one way or another, our planet is wilder and weirder than the rules we are used to would predict

Culture

A woman looking at her phone

Technology

Exploding Samsung phone shows how risky lithium batteries can be

Comment

Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz

Earth

US presidential candidates being let off hook on climate change

Comment

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Humans

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Culture

$A protestor against fracking$

Earth

There’s no good reason to go ahead with fracking in the UK

Analysis

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Technology

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Culture

First farm to grow veg in a desert using only sun and seawater

Earth

First farm to grow veg in a desert using only sun and seawater

News

chemical flask

Technology

The reaction that would give us clean fossil fuels forever

Features

Technology

A not-so-delicate buttercup crafted from metal

Regulars

Minke whales off Iceland

Life

Sound blasts could keep whales away from wind farm construction

Underwater electronic pulses are being tested to keep minke whales in the North Sea from swimming towards the dangers posed by offshore wind farm building sites

News

Earth

Scientists demand halt to damming of Europe’s last wild river

News

Earth

You can see fracking's impact on Earth's surface from space

News

Earth

The oil and gas we have already tapped will take us past 1.5 °C

News

Life

How baby beluga whales dive deeper and longer than any others

News