Earth England's homogenised woods are bad for biodiversity Not much difference here SOME English woodland is losing biodiversity , even though most individual woods contain just as many species as before. Comparing the plants in the woods of Dorset, in south-west England, with plants in the same woods 70 years ago, Sally Keith of nearby Bournemouth University and her colleagues found that they … 51¶¯Âþ
"We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission" 51¶¯Âþ
Falling out of love with market myths They sold us a myth and we believed it, so let's not make the same mistake again MY STORY starts with a theory that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher sold us. It is called "supply-side economics", and it claims that economic growth depends, first, on the rich (not the poor) being rewarded with tax cuts; … Opinion
Space Scramjets promise space travel for all Business-class return to space, please Gallery: Spaceplanes and scramjets: A 50-year history ON A bright autumn morning five years ago, the space-flight community was turned on its head by a little teardrop-shaped spacecraft built in a small workshop in California's Mojave desert. The successful flight of SpaceShipOne on 29 September 2004, the first of two … Features
Enigma Number 1555 Not a square Fill each of the 12 cells with a digit so that the two four-digit numbers that you can read across, the two four-digit numbers that you can read down, the two two-digit numbers that you can read down at the sides and the two-digit number that you can read across at the … Regulars
Working from... just about anywhere Working from a sunlounger THE powers that be at Guy Robinson's place of work insist that employees tell the office if they're "working from home". Human laziness being what it is – sorry, we meant to say "the employees being committed to maximising productivity in a forward-looking sense" – the welter of emails on Monday … Regulars