Earth Super goby helps salvage ocean dead zone brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Goby fish Tougher than the rest A resilient fish is thriving in an inhospitable, jellyfish-infested region off Africa's south-west coast. And crucially it is helping to keep the local ecosystem going, and to preserve an important fishery. The Benguela ecosystem lies off the coast of Namibia. It exists in waters only 120 metres … 51¶¯Âþ
Oil spill memory will fade fast THE blowout of the Deepwater Horizon oil well is haunted by superlatives. The worst ecological disaster of modern times; the largest offshore oil spill in American history. Does that make it the wake-up call we all need to rethink our damaging addiction to oil? Sadly, no. In a year or two, few outside the usual … Opinion
Life Social networks: The great tipping point test A data revolution that can help us understand social connections Editorial: Don't fear the tweeter: your data trail is doing good Your online traces are helping fuel a revolution in the understanding of human behaviour – one that's revealing the mathematical laws of our lives EVERY move you make, every twitter feed you update, somebody … Features
Enigma Number 1605 Every month As a novelty calendar, I have made three cubes, and on each of the 18 sides I have painted one different capital letter, with at least one vowel on each cube. These are packed in a rectangular box, on one of whose sides is a picture of how the three cubes might look … Regulars
Don't bother to read the licence agreement Don't bother to read the licence agreement HARDLY anybody ever reads the licence agreements that permit you to use computer software – and that, for all you know, in paragraph 19(b)iii consign you to lifelong slavery with Moloch Computing, Inc. Only Feedback and our readers, we suspect, even try. Certainly, it seems hard to believe … Regulars