A two-metre-long turtle has reportedly washed onto a beach in Calella, near Barcelona on the northeast coast of Spain. The apparently dead leatherback turtle, which reportedly weighs 700kg, was filmed being removed from the beach...
American novelist Jonathan Franzen on the books which changed his life, made him cry and the ones he wishes he’d written. Can you name the book that changed your life?...
A quarter of young children in developing countries miss out on playing, reading and singing with their parents, according to research by Unicef. The UN children’s agency has warned in...
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark (review) Artificial intelligence will probably be the most important agent of change in the 21st century, think scientists. It may...
For the better part of a decade, the skies have grown increasingly unfriendly, even hostile to jumbo jets such as Boeing Co.’s 747 and Airbus SE’s A380. Now the fuel-efficient planes intended...
On the edge of Berlin Tiergarten, the pentagon-shaped, gold-crowned roof of the Berlin Philharmonie sits comfortably within the city Culturforum (now the cultural centre of the German capital), along with...
The Great Wall of China is one of the oldest, largest, and most celebrated achievements of human ingenuity. The archaeological survey found that the entire wall is 8 852 km and...
Retired English Literature teacher Shirley Murphy living most of the year in Florida speaks about her relationship with students Shirley Murphy says she’d still be teaching English lit at Idaho...
Ken Lance, married software engineer with six kids, speaks about isolation and belonging. 25 years after high school. What do you most remember from your school years? Lance: You know,...
Antibiotic-resistant genes are being spread around the world in animal feed, according to new research that adds to fears humanity could lose one of our most important medicines. A Government-commissioned...
