Earth Aircraft and ships must not be exempt from emissions cuts The deal to limit global warming to 1.5 °C has no chance of success unless aviation and shipping pay for the pollution they cause Opinion
Life Mind-reading tech helps beginners quickly learn to play Bach Even Glenn Gould was a beginner once Every potential virtuoso needs a mentor. It just so happens that this one is a computer. Called BACh - for Brain Automated Chorales – the system helps beginners learn to play Bach chorales on piano by measuring how hard their brains are working. It only offers a new … News
Earth Hey US science teachers, leave those climate myths alone Accurate teaching needed Are US schools doing a good job teaching climate change ? That's a crucial question, given that children now in classrooms will be the ones dealing with the serious impacts of a warming world as adults. The answer, according to a report out today , is distressing. Based on a comprehensive survey … Opinion
Earth Giant mountains of green glass prepare to face the heat THIS is no green and pleasant land. These gentle rolling hills are, in fact, shards of glass, piled up at a recycling centre in Yeruham, in the heart of Israel's Negev desert. They stand 15 metres high and span the length of a few football pitches. Phoenicia Glass Works is the only producer of glass … Regulars
Life Playing Cupid to get reluctant corals in the mood for love A tropical sea, a sunset, a full moon – that’s what normally turns on exotic corals. So how do you get them spawning in a London aquarium? Features
Technology Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966): Backwards to the future Douglas Coupland’s Deep Face : one of the show’s more evocative works Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) , Whitechapel Gallery, London, to 15 May 2016 BACKWARDS. It’s an unusual way to lay out a retrospective, but that’s how the Whitechapel Gallery has arranged Electronic Superhighway, its new exhibition of art after the internet’s emergence. “We wanted to … CultureLab
Life Feedback: Conspiracy theories about Zika are breeding like flies Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Regulars