There is a paradox at the centre of the Amazon that took a long time for outsiders to notice.
The rainforest is the most productive terrestrial ecosystem on Earth, and…
Maya Linton
Almost everyone has done it: left a note in a pocket, washed the trousers, and found the money at the bottom of the drum, damp and crumpled but entirely usable.…
Children ask why the sea is salty, and the standard answer — rivers carry salt into it and evaporation leaves the salt behind — is correct as far as it…
Scripts are usually classified by what a single character represents: a sound, a syllable, a consonant, or a whole word. Almost every design choice below follows from that decision. Here…
The single variable that determines everything is whether you can legally and practically leave the airport, and that needs establishing before you are standing in a transit corridor wondering. Here…
Few scientific ideas have travelled as far or as fast as this one. Trees, it is said, are connected underground by fungal threads through which they share nutrients, support their…