Would you want a quarry near your house? Driven by EU law, environmental impact assessment is now a requirement for...
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Water is all around us – most of the planet’s surface is covered with it and it is the main...
Groundwater is an important source of drinking water in London and elsewhere, but the legacy of the UK's industrial revolution...
The bodies of murder victims, either whole or in pieces, often finish up in rivers and canals. For the last...
Eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to breed “Eels are sending us a really major signal that we’re harming our...
I remember the first time it happened with painful clarity. The summer sun had burned the Cornish sand a brilliant...
Water is the most every day of substances, but on closer examination it also one of the strangest. To celebrate...
The last 2.6 million years have seen the breadth of human engineering and invention. From ancient humans using hammerstones to...
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft recently discovered water vapor on Comet 67/Churyumov–Gerasimenko that greatly differs in composition from Earth’s...
New Atlantis is the latest Enlightenment Cafe immersive theatre project of LAStheatre. Running next week from 19-25th January 2015 at...
From the ingenious to the ridiculous, the direction evolution has taken in creating creatures great and small never fails to...
Every April, one thousand or so of the world’s toughest athletes gather in southern Morocco for a punishing six-day foot...
Humans might be the dominant species on land, but we’ve fared less well underwater, partly due to our inability to...
As a chilly winter comes to a close, find out more about the fascinating properties of ice. I, Science's Stephanie...
Dead fish after an overflow event. Image: Thames Anglers Conservancy. There once was a time when the Thames was teeming...
Residents lead the way in restoring the River Wandle Bright and early on a June weekend morning, volunteers in a...
Pluto’s fifth moon discovered Image: Hubblesite A new moon has been found orbiting Pluto, bringing the number of satellites known...
Despite it being July, and officially British summer time, it still feels like October. This is the wettest summer in...
With thanks to Adair Farrar The San Juan River Goosenecks State Park in Utah, USA, overlooks a deep meander of...
This article is taken from the Winter 2011 issue of I, Science magazine Antonio Torrisi uncovers the secrets held by...
Fact of the day #1 Drinking absolutely pure water can kill you. All the water we normally drink - from...
In the same year as Anderson’s experiment demonstrated the existence of antimatter, another oft-overlooked discovery was made. William and Alun...
The most recent financial crisis caused by the housing bubble, which popped as subprime mortgages in the US and many...
Dr Wazeem, a paediatrian at Sambhavna examines a patient BY JOSEPH MALONE In 1969, as part of the “green revolution”...
Four and half billion years ago, a meteorite the size of Mars slammed into Earth, melting the entire surface of...
The Sun has finally got his London hat on. So to celebrate, here’s a warming story about smart scientists using...
Your home is your only place of sanctuary. Yet, lurking in the walls is a silent menace. It is a...
An unusually snowy winter, and weeks of heavy rainfall in south east USA has resulted in the Mississippi River flooding...
Globally, polluted water kills 14,000 people every day. In India, over 350,000 children die of diarrhoea from dirty drinking water...
Last year, I had the good fortune of going on a white water rafting trip. Shivering uncontrollably from the combination...
