24 February 2021
The technology exists to solve the world’s biggest problems, but lack of money and political will stymie progress. Analyses show that even huge investments pay for themselves, so the task is to get politicians to make change happen
24 February 2021
Proto-cities built from 6200 years ago in eastern Europe upend our ideas about when civilisation began and why people made the move from rural to urban living
24 February 2021
Let’s imagine you have inherited a fortune and want to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Here’s the best way to spend your money to make a difference to climate change, disease and poverty
24 February 2021
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24 February 2021
We too often turn to insulting people’s brain power – and that closes off our ability to understand others, argues Melanie Challenger
22 February 2021
A large, life-like painting of a kangaroo on the ceiling of a rock shelter is the oldest known painting in Australia, and was dated using ancient wasp nests
19 February 2021
With some types of sanitation, such as pit latrines, human waste can be filtered through soil. Across the world around 38 million tonnes of human waste is sanitised this way – the equivalent of around £3.2 billion of commercial water treatment
