Stella Ktenas falls down, down, down into the Burning Seed

Stella Ktenas wants to build a time machine to go back and watch this show again

Stella Karver reports on new developments in the University of Queensland’s pitch drop experiment

Coleridge foretold our future in the lines, “Water, water, every where, / nor any drop to drink.” The oceans have been slowly warming in recent decades. This year Arctic temperatures were 1-3 degrees Celsius above average, and thousand years old methane frozen on the sea bed is starting to bubble to the surface in plumes.…

Before there was Damn You Auto Correct, there was the Cupertino effect. The effect derives its name from the spell-check dictionary on Microsoft Word 97, which only contained the hyphenated spelling of ‘co-operation’. This meant the British form ‘cooperation’ would be automatically corrected to ‘Cupertino’ (in a bizarre coincidence, Cupertino turns out to be a…