The port city that lost its water
Fishing boats lie stranded more than 100km from the sea, victims of a terrible environmental disaster.
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Cave art: Etchings hailed as ‘Iberia’s most spectacular’
Cave art as much as 14,500 years old has been pronounced "the most spectacular and impressive" ever discovered on the Iberian peninsula.
Which country really has the cleverest students?
Higher education has a strong sense of hierarchy.
Why there could be many identical copies of you
In theory this is not the only Universe that might exist, and in many others, identical copies of us can be found.
Clicks and bricks: How building is going digital
Architects and construction companies have been able to "look around" computerised 3D models of their buildings for some time.
Mac v PC – who’s cooler now?
This week saw the unveiling of a futuristic computer in a very slick presentation.
How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’
Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not.
The secret of how life on Earth began
Today life has conquered every square inch of Earth, but when the planet formed it was a dead rock. How did life get started?
Has the hand-written signature had its day?
When President Obama signed the nattily named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, it marked the most significant regulatory overhaul of the US healthcare system since 1965.
What really happened to mammoths and other ice age giants
Scientists have known for a century that there was a global extinction of large animals at roughly the same time as humans expanded around the world.
