Technology Slipping a brake disk Aquaplaning is a nightmare for drivers. Heavy rain can create a layer of water between the road and a car's tyres, deep enough to rob the tyres of their grip and make the brakes useless so that the car skims along. Often the driver doesn't notice until it's too late. But car maker DaimlerChrysler has … News
Humans Westminster diary GLOBAL warming continues to force the mercury up the glass, and there's no doubt that if we are ever to control it, we must move over to cleaner ways of generating our energy. Nuclear power stations don't produce the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, so it is clear we should consider building more of them. I'm … Opinion
Glittering globe NEXT time you're digging in the garden, keep your eyes peeled for bright, hard little stones. There might be diamonds in your soil. OK, maybe it's not quite that simple, but the scenario isn't as far-fetched as it sounds, according to Ken Collerson, a geochemist at the University of Queensland. He reckons that traditional ideas … Features
Move over, Dr Doolittle Talking with Animals by Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Hodder & Stoughton, £18.99, ISBN 034082123X Reviewed by John Bonner MAKING good-looking and intelligent natural history documentaries has long been a high spot of the BBC's television output. For two recent major series, Cousins in 1990 and this summer's Talking with Animals, the corporation employed a presenter who also … Books & Arts
Feedback YOU may already have seen them or read about them in the press. If not you soon will. Mysterious chalk marks appearing on pavements around the world show where there are Wi-Fi wireless Internet nodes that anyone with a portable computer can use to surf the Web at someone else's expense. The idea behind the … Regulars