Earth It is worth valuing trees, but all deserve our respect The benefits trees bring to our lives are now being quantified by a band of treeconomists, an approach that could help us give trees the respect they deserve News
Technology AI that deletes people from photos makes rewriting history easy A photobomber steals the limelight Photobomber be gone. Editing objects, people, or unwanted details out of photos has long been a tedious, manual process – but an algorithm can do it at the swipe of a brush. To remove an object from a picture, an artificial intelligence algorithm has learnt to fill in the gaps … News
Health A male pill will be a breakthrough for science but not for women Research is closing in on the elusive male contraceptive pill. But will it really lead to men taking more responsibility for birth control? News
Health Gallery of terrifying gynaecological tools from past 200 years Early 20th century speculum design THEY may look like instruments of torture, but these devices have been gynaecological staples for hundreds of years. The images form part of a photo archive titled Parturition that was collated by Rhode Island-based artist Lindsey Beal. To create it, she has spent the past five years visiting historical collections … Regulars
Earth Treeconomics: How to put a fair price tag on urban forests We can now calculate the exact value of a tree, from shade to beauty. Doing so could be the best way to protect them – and plan the forests of the future Features
Earth Magical regrowth: Kew Gardens opens revamped Temperate House The revamped glasshouse is set to rival the elegant Palm House In the world’s largest Victorian glasshouse, a heavily laden trolley is heading my way, one man pulling from the front, three more steadying its load. On board is a tree I don’t recognise. It is horizontal, which doesn’t help, but to me it looks a bit like a … Culture
The flexible therapy that helps beat workplace stress We need to change the way we think about work and how it influences our lives, says chartered psychologist Rob Archer octopus
Feedback: Uranus smells like farts, say astronomers Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Regulars