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BILLIONS of years ago a star began to die. In the process, it created something new: 65,500 billion tonnes of

GREENLAND’S icy mountains are not an obvious place to search for an archive of economic history, but a study just

DRONES are getting ever smaller. The latest is the first insect-sized robot to take to the air without a tether

WHEN people learn to drive, they subconsciously absorb what are colloquially known as the “rules of the road”. When is

This picture is of an Edith’s checkerspot butterfly laying her eggs on some blue-eyed Mary, the plant usually eaten by

EVERY year human endeavours emit 50bn tonnes of “carbon dioxide equivalent”. This way of measuring things reflects the climatic importance

A REPORT published last year by Water UK, an industry body, said that more than 90% of sewer-pipe blockages in

THE XPRIZE foundation, based near Los Angeles, exists to encourage innovations that might be useful but from which conventional financial

THE Mahia peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, has been a holidaymakers’ haven for decades. It

ALAN MISLOVE studies algorithms. Recently, his research at Northeastern University, in Boston, has shown that Facebook’s software was leaking users’