The eyes have it

Two front-facing eyes works well for us but not for everything else. These animals have some bizarre and beautiful eyes that let them see the world in very different ways…

Future cities

Green, friendly and clean: How we could reimagine urban life after the pandemic

The new age of fusion

For decades, the technology to develop clean, safe fusion power has remained tantalisingly out of reach. Now, though, a new breed of start-ups could have cracked it at last.

Why are people who humblebrag so annoying?

Why are people who humblebrag so annoying? LILY WILLIAMS, LONDON The definitive research on the topic remains a 2018 paper by psychologists at the University of North Carolina and Harvard Business School. They identified that there are two types of humblebragger and that the most annoying kind is the complainbragger. They say things like, “I […]