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Shark's open mouth

Life

Shark-free world? That's a wish that would come back to bite us

Sharks may be hard to love for many people, including the US president, but these animals are essential to the health of our oceans, says Lesley Evans Ogden

Comment

Naked volunteers pose for the US photographer Spencer Tunick in the ice-cold Swiss glacier of Aletsch, the largest in the Alps, as background for an environmental campaign about global warming

Earth

Tiny individual decisions really could help avert climate chaos

Comment

Twin Peaks road sign

Life

Iconic tree from Twin Peaks threatened by climate change

News

Bitcoin symbol hovering above a cellphone

Technology

A new bitcoin Ponzi scheme or scam pops up almost every day

News

Number 2

Humans

We must challenge notions that Marx can explain the modern world

Culture

China tackles climate change with world's largest carbon market

Earth

China tackles climate change with world's largest carbon market

News

Man sleeping on street and man on phone

Humans

Well-being will suffer if we don’t trump the anti-science trend

Leader

currency screen

Technology

2018 preview: Bitcoin and ICO bubbles are set to burst

News

Good news: Demand for coal is plummeting towards a record low

Earth

Good news: Demand for coal is plummeting towards a record low

News

Supersonic aircraft

Technology

Will supersonic air travel's return be another white elephant?

Fifty years after the unveiling of Concorde – the flawed, first supersonic airliner – its successors are coming. Maybe they’ll be the real deal, says Paul Marks

Comment

Technology

Bitcoin futures trading opens as cryptocurrency's price soars

News

Humans

Effortless thinking: Why life is more than a zero-sum game

Features

Humans

How refugee scientists can change the world

Culture

Humans

The Soviet genius who tried to beat capitalism at its own game

Features