Analysing waste water may assist census takers
Jul 18th 2020YOU ARE what you eat, the saying goes. It therefore follows that what you excrete gives away a lot about you. Writ…
Siberia’s heatwave would not have happened without climate change
Few extreme weather events can be wholly pinned on greenhouse-gas emissions. This one canJul 15th 2020THIS HAS been a sweltering…
Emissions slashed today won’t slow warming until mid-century
Jul 11th 2020MUCH OF the international effort thus far to combat climate change has focused on cutting emissions of greenhouse…
Measuring luminescence helps to date a remarkable new discovery at Stonehenge
Jul 11th 2020FOR MORE than 4,000 years Stonehenge has stood on Salisbury Plain in southern Britain. The landscape surrounding…
This year’s AIDS conference has brought snippets of good news
Jul 8th 2020NOT SAN FRANCISCO AFTER ALLEVEN IN THE days of the internet, conferences remain the lifeblood of science. Young thrusters…
Pandemic-proofing the planet
Jun 25th 2020Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter….
A pest’s genome reveals its past
Jul 4th 2020A CENTURY AND a half ago an alien insect alighted in Europe. It displaced millions, ruined local economies and forced…
After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit
Jul 4th 2020CONVENTIONAL WISDOM holds that battery-powered cars are the future of motoring. But Hyundai, a big South Korean vehicle-maker,…
An icebreaker called Polarstern is revealing the Arctic’s secrets
Jun 20th 2020THERE IS “LOCKDOWN”. And then there is lockdown. Those who have spent the past weeks allowed out only to exercise…