18+ hour, 20+ min ago  (1847+ words) When the last men on the moon received Richard Nixon's congratulatory message as they began their return to Earth, they were furious. "The dreams that draw humanity forward seem always to be redeemed if we believe in them strongly enough…...

20+ hour, 11+ min ago  (608+ words) Inside the cramped Orion space capsule there is a behind-closed-doors compartment reserved for solitude, voted the astronauts" number one spot for getting away from it all. It"s the universal waste management system " Nasa jargon for the toilet " and it…...

14+ hour, 55+ min ago  (608+ words) For a bird sanctuary, it was not a good look. Every spring at WWT Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, impetuous chicks would tiptoe to the edge of their nest, flap their wings, launch themselves into the air and smack straight into the…...

10+ mon, 5+ day ago  (505+ words) So far what I've described are aids to wellbeing, and the contribution that AI can make in these areas is woefully underused by most people. But I wouldn't say that AI revolutionises the goals of wellness and self-healing so much…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (724+ words) As children hunt for chocolate eggs and families cook Sunday lunch, something unprecedented could take place in the country's electricity system this Easter. Britain could be powered entirely without fossil fuels for the first time. The body that keeps the…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago  (757+ words) At dusk the day shift gives way to the night. Walk a footpath along a farmland hedge in spring and you'll hear blackbirds "pinking" loudly to signal their occupancy of prime roosting spots to nearby rivals, while pheasants let off…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago  (655+ words) I can confirm that the eyes and legs of sparrowhawks are, as per the bird ID guides, bright yellow, the same spring yolky yellow as the centre of dandelions. The talons, though, are the black of nightmare. I was rounding…...

18+ hour, 12+ min ago  (415+ words) This time half a century ago, the Met Office announced the previous 11 months had been the driest in southern Britain's meteorological history. After the hot summer of 1975 had lowered water tables, the autumn and winter rains had failed. Water shortages…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago  (512+ words) There is talk of the otter and badger but if we want to outsmart the counterfeiters, let's only have wily wildlife Urban foxes and hardy weeds are more on the money for our notes There is talk of the otter…...

21+ hour, 5+ min ago  (11+ words) The "149 "dumbphone" designed to keep children off the internet'The Times...