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Reporting from Zimbabwe: why the sanctions must be lifted 24 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
I’m sitting in a stuffy office in Bulawayo’s business district, struggling to get reliable internet access, while listening to young people’s accounts of their disheartening attempts at entrepreneuria...
Resolution ready to shine down under 24 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
After months of planning, design, building and testing, Britain’s only entry into the World Solar Challenge – a 3,000km solar-powered race across Australia – is heading out to the other side of the wo...
Attack of the Zeppelins 23 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
The battle to bring down the Zeppelins during World War I is being revisited in a new documentary which explains how these supposed floating death-traps successfully brought terror to Britain’s skies....
How does your garden grow? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Food and biofuel crops could be grown and maintained in many places where it wasn’t previously possible, such as deserts, landfills and former mining sites, thanks to an inexpensive, non-chemical soil...
Honeyguide birds destroy own species’ eggs to eliminate competition 21 Aug 2013 | 05:51 am
Like cuckoos, honeyguides are parasitic birds that lay their eggs in other birds' nests and dupe them into raising their young. Now scientists reveal that, unlike in cuckoos, the resemblance between h...
Ancient ancestor of great white shark named after museum director 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
The new genus Kenolamna has been revealed through the study of fossilised shark teeth which date back 100-80 million years ago. The finds, which have revolutionised the early history of megatooth sha...
Reporting from Zimbabwe: a visit to Harare’s biggest township 17 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
My first day in Harare is a blur of opulence and finery at the city’s only five star hotel, Meikles, which sits proudly on its own private road defended by armed guards. This is the kind of lifestyle ...
We ask the experts: is overseas aid working? 16 Aug 2013 | 02:26 pm
Aid is an emotive issue. The disparity between nations, and groups within them, are the outcome of a myriad of factors – political and cultural as well as environmental. The act of giving (and receivi...
Shooting in the field: capturing life as it’s lived 14 Aug 2013 | 02:58 pm
A woman holds her two children standing in front of their house, reduced to rubble after an earthquake. They wear no coats, one child has no shoes and there is snow on the ground. Residents in the blo...
SOCCs appeal: online learning versus the classroom 13 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
I’ve recently finished teaching a five week course on the creative and critical afterlife of Wuthering Heights. We looked at various responses to Emily Brontë’s novel, from the commercial (MTV’s film ...
