The dark side of innovation: From dynamite to climate change

27 November 2019

Cultural evolution defines us as humans, but its products kill as people weaponise consumer tech and climate change threatens Earth, argue two new books

Studying the universe’s origins hint that its beginning has no end

27 November 2019

The cosmos is stranger than we ever imagined and new bubbles of space-time may pop up and grow continuously with no beginning or end, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Fast access to new medicines shouldn’t mean endangering our health

27 November 2019

Agencies like the US Food and Drug Administration speed the approval of some drugs to address urgent needs, but there are signs that the balance between safety and speed isn’t quite right

See the exquisite inner world of the gemstone crazy lace agate

27 November 2019

This beautiful image peers inside the colourful and intricate world of the gemstone crazy lace agate by painstakingly piecing together some 25,000 exposures

'I like a challenge': CERN physicist on the draw of weird antimatter

27 November 2019

CERN physicist Jeffrey Hangst spends his days making antimatter. He explains why the world is safe in his hands – and why he plays in a band called Diracula

The Bhopal disaster 35 years on: Why the full truth remains unknown

27 November 2019

On the night of 2 December 1984, a chemical leak from a pesticides plant killed thousands in the Indian city of Bhopal – but no one has really been called to account

One spoonful of tea avoids plenty of plastic problems

27 November 2019

Recycling heat to save energy in our home

27 November 2019

Tackling the puzzle of low-carbon domestic energy (2)

27 November 2019

We still don't know whether vaping is safe or not

27 November 2019

Vaping was once thought to be "95 per cent safer than smoking", but a sudden rise in deaths and injury linked to e-cigarettes is causing some people to reconsider