Health Advice on how much booze we should drink must remain advice IT'S sobering news. If you're having a dry January – and about 2 million people in England and Wales are trying, according to the charity Alcohol Concern – you might want to think about making it permanent. That was one of the take-home messages of new guidelines issued by the UK's chief medical officers last … Opinion
Space Star clusters could host long-lived technological civilisations If habitable planets can form inside globular clusters, they would make nice homes for advanced civilisations that talk to each other and travel between the stars. Globular clusters are dense clumps of stars, with about a million suns packed into a sphere some 100 light years across. They formed early in the Milky Way's history, … 51¶¯Âþ
Health Mexico's sugary-drink tax was all fizz for very little pop A much-heralded tax on sugary drinks in Mexico has had only a modest impact and shows much more is needed to turn the tide of obesity, says Tom Sanders, emeritus professor of nutrition and dietetics Opinion
Earth Oil price plunge will be bad news for climate efforts The price of oil has plummeted since June 2014 and last week fell to its lowest level for 11 years. Natural gas prices , which are linked to oil prices, have been falling too. And in many countries, such as the US, the cost of coal has been dropping for a while. Many analysts think … 51¶¯Âþ
Space Space age ghosts show abandoned relics of NASA's golden years THEY were once the height of high tech, but now these relics of the US space age are just modern-day ruins. "These things were the focus of the world's attention 40, 50 years ago," says photographer Roland Miller. "Now they're rusting away and being torn down." Miller first came across them in 1988, when he … Regulars
Life How to master your habits and take control of your life Habits rule our daily lives, but understanding how they become ingrained in the brain could help you nail the habits you want to keep and drop the ones you don’t Features
Technology Big Bang Data offers worries, wonders and some cats On the first of the 12 days of CultureLab, Alun Anderson tells of how in a world made of data, an exhibition underlines the choice between the heaven of superconnection or the hell of surveillance CultureLab
Feedback: Laser-etched food promises a digested read Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Serving suggestions HOW'S this for a digested read? Niels Henzwe and his colleagues have been experimenting with a laser cutter to sear messages on to bananas, bread and sausages. Or, as they reported at the 14th International Conference on Mobile … Regulars