Getty ImagesVowing to eat healthier is a common way to kick off a new year. You might start by researching salad recipes and stocking up on lettuce and other greens. But after a few days in the fridge, your lettuce might not be looking so crisp. Maybe your rom... More »
Early last year, a deer euthanized as part of a study at the Kerr Wildlife Management Area research facility in Texas tested positive for chronic wasting disease — the deer equivalent of the brain disorder called “mad cow” in cattle and “Creutzfeldt-Jakob dise... More »
Earlier today I set you the following puzzle, a classic interview question for software engineers. It seems really to have caught your imaginations: so far the original article has had almost 500 below-the-line comments. Many are lateral takes on the problem, ... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a space race to make deliveries for NASA and other customers.Astrobotic Technology’s lander caught... More »
Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a US labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling its CEO, Elon Musk, “a distraction and embarrassment”.In a lawsuit filed in... More »
Ted Green is a rebel. He calls sheep “land maggots”. A horse-riding centre is “a dog-food complex”. And the ancient tree expert’s new book includes a photo of him sticking up two fingers at a portrait of Margaret Thatcher.But the influential, iconoclastic Gree... More »
Intelligent machines have been serving and enslaving people in the realm of the imagination for decades. The all-knowing computer – sometimes benign, usually malevolent – was a staple of the science fiction genre long before any such entity was feasible in the... More »
As a writer, my focus has been on one of the biggest mysteries in all of history: what are the origins of patriarchy in human society? I should have known that the journey to answer that question would for ever change the way I thought about myself.What I did ... More »
Every 14 days, a language dies. Within the next century, about half of the 7,000 languages spoken on Earth today will have disappeared, taking with them a unique lexicon, culture and way of seeing the world.I’m lucky enough to be one of just 0.01% of the world... More »
Earlier today I set you the following problems. Here they are again with solutions.Puzzle 1 Can you make 24 using only the digits from 1 to 9 and the basic arithmetical operations? Here’s one way that places all the digits in the correct order.(123456 x 7) + 8... More »
For the first time in eight years of posting puzzles on alternate Mondays, today’s publication date coincides with Christmas Day. Festive greetings everyone!What numerical gifts has Santa brought this year? For North Americans, there’s a delightful date next w... More »
To celebrate our anniversary, my partner and I dine in a trendy London restaurant in Hackney with a Michelin star – my first time in such a place. A crispy little bonbon is introduced to us simply as “Pine, kvass lees and vin brûlé.” I watch my partner light u... More »