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

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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 ...

Continuing Conor Feehly’s interesting points in his article “What makes a mind?”, I would propose that “agency” isn’t an adequate definition of “self”. As Feehly points out, the concept of agency is ...

I have read your correspondence about this article and think that both the article and these letters miss a couple of important points. During the last glacial period, there were land bridges between ...

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 ...

Isabel Woodford’s article on postnatal depression (PND) in fathers struck a chord with me. When my children were born in the early 1980s, PND wasn’t recognised as a paternal issue. I don’t recall ...

I see that researchers have dismissed the likelihood of an advanced civilisation on planet K2-18b because no radio waves have been detected. This seems to be a narrow-minded approach. The earliest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Babies don’t appear to understand one another’s babbling in the way adults understand speech. When infants babble, they are probably practising how to produce speech sounds, matching what they can do ...

King penguins are not just surviving, but thriving as temperatures rise in the sub-Antarctic, with more of their chicks surviving to maturity. Yet although the species looks like a climate change ...