Trump and Kim face off in Singapore summit
13 June 2018
In a handshake watched around the globe, US President Donald Trump finally met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on 12 June in Singapore
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Football's a mess: don't let technology spoil that
13 June 2018
The video-assisted refereeing technology being introduced in this year's World Cup will supposedly cut errors – but that ignores what makes football great
Following trends and easy answers isn't the way to a good life
13 June 2018
Vegan clothes, biofuel and wood-burning stoves have all been offered up as ethical, environmental choices – but the evidence behind them is much more murky
Vegan-friendly fashion is actually bad for the environment
13 June 2018
Animal-free alternatives to fur and leather are on the rise, but many use plastic materials that end up harming ocean creatures. Is there any way to dress ethically?
Net neutrality officially ended this week – now what?
13 June 2018
After months of public outcry and legal wrangling, a US law about how internet access can be sold has been repealed
The US wants to build an X-ray bomb to destroy chemical weapons
13 June 2018
Regular explosives risk spilling chemical or biological weapons when aimed at storage sites. So the US is experimenting with using massive X-ray bursts instead
Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years
12 June 2018
Britain only has 58 wild mammal species to start with, and many have declined sharply in number since 1995 – with hedgehogs suffering a particularly severe fall
NASA’s Opportunity rover is stuck in a huge dust storm on Mars
11 June 2018
A dust storm bigger than North America has blown up on Mars, and it’s blocking out the sunlight that powers NASA’s ageing Opportunity rover. Is this its last gasp?
Clouds of spinning diamonds around stars solve an old mystery
11 June 2018
Tiny diamonds in clouds circling bright young stars may be the source of unexplained microwave radiation from space that has baffled astronomers since 1996
Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off
11 June 2018
In the past decade most of the oldest baobabs, many of them sprouted over two millennia ago, have died unexpectedly and few new ones are sprouting
