The Davies Sisters

Why we need silence

Book review: The World of Sugar by Ulbe Bosma

Do animals dream?

Mapungubwe

Artificial Intelligence

Saving the saiga

The problems of getting around the city of Dar es Salaam

Rethinking the Past

The problems and benefits created by the spread of the water hyacinth in Kenya

How could multilingualism benefit India's poorest schoolchildren?

The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft

The kākāpō

The Return of the Elm?

How stress affects our judgement

Manatees

Procrastination

Invasion of the Robot Umpires

Frozen Food

Can the planet’s coral reefs be saved?

Robots and us

The Life and Work of Georgia O’Keeffe

Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change

A New Role for Livestock Guard Dogs

How tennis rackets have changed

The pirates of the ancient Mediterranean

The persistence and peril of misinformation

The Industrial Revolution in Britain

Athletes and stress

An inquiry into the existence of the gifted child

Archaeologists discover evidence of prehistoric island settlers

The global importance of wetlands

Is the era of artificial speech translation upon us?

The impact of climate change on butterflies in Britain

Deep-sea mining

The Unselfish Gene

Urban farming

Forest management in Pennsylvania, USA

Conquering Earth's space junk problem

Stonehenge

Living with artificial intelligence

An ideal city

Materials to take us beyond concrete

The steam car

The case for mixed-ability classes

Green roofs

The growth mindset

Alfred Wegener: science, exploration and the theory of continental drift

The development of the London underground railway

Stadiums: past, present and future

To catch a king

The Dead Sea Scrolls

A second attempt at domesticating the tomato

Insight or evolution?

The thylacine

Palm oil

Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan’s Skyscrapers

Bats to the rescue

Does education fuel economic growth?

Timur Gareyev – blindfold chess champion

Why we need to protect polar bears

The Step Pyramid of Djoser

The future of work

The White Horse of Uffington

I contain multitudes

How to make wise decisions

Roman shipbuilding and navigation

Climate change reveals ancient artefacts in Norway's glaciers

Plant ‘thermometer’ triggers springtime growth by measuring night-time heat

Roman tunnels

Changes in reading habits

Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence

Nutmeg – a valuable spice

Driverless cars

What is exploration?

Could urban engineers learn from dance?

Should we try to bring extinct species back to life?

Having a laugh

Henry Moore (1898–1986)

The Desolenator: producing clean water

Why fairy tales are really scary tales

The return of the huarango

Silbo Gomero – the whistle ‘language’ of the Canary Islands

Environmental practices of big businesses

The importance of children’s play

The growth of bike-sharing schemes around the world

Motivational factors and the hospitality industry

Alexander Henderson (1831–1913)

Back to the future of skyscraper design

Why companies should welcome disorder

The concept of intelligence

Saving bugs to find new drugs

The power of play

The secret of staying young

Why zoos are good

Reading Passage 3

Case Study: Tourism New Zealand website

Why being bored is stimulating – and useful, too

Artificial artists

Bringing cinnamon to Europe

Oxytocin

MAKING THE MOST OF TRENDS

The coconut palm

How baby talk gives infant brains a boost

Whatever happened to the Harappan Civilisation?

Cutty Sark: the fastest sailing ship of all time

SAVING THE SOIL

Book Review

Cork

Collecting as a hobby

What's the purpose of gaining knowledge?

The risks agriculture faces in developing countries

The Lost City

The Benefits of Being Bilingual

Flying tortoises

The Intersection of Health Sciences and Geography

Music and the emotions

The History of Glass

Bring back the big cats

UK companies need more effective boards of directors

Crop-growing skyscrapers

The Falkirk Wheel

Reducing the Effects of Climate Change

Raising the Mary Rose

What destroyed the civilisation of Easter Island?

Neuroaesthetics

The Story of Silk

Great Migrations

Preface to ‘How the other half thinks: Adventures in mathematical reasoning’

Research using twins

An Introduction to Film Sound

This Marvellous Invention

Stepwells

European Transport Systems 1990–2010

The Psychology of Innovation

Tea and the Industrial Revolution

Gifted Children and Learning

Museums of Fine Art and Their Public

The Context, Meaning and Scope of Tourism

Autumn Leaves

Beyond the Blue Horizon

The Megafires of California

Second Nature

When Evolution Runs Backwards

Australia’s Sporting Success

Delivering the Goods

Climate Change and the Inuit

Advantages of Public Transport

Greying Population Stays in the Pink

Numeration

Reading Passage 1 — Cinema

Motivating Employees under Adverse Conditions

The Search for the Anti-aging Pill

Doctoring Sales

Do Literate Women Make Better Mothers?

Reading Passage 3 — Bullying

Johnson’s Dictionary

Nature or Nurture?

The Truth about the Environment

Bakelite

What’s so funny?

The Birth of Scientific English

Early Childhood Education

Disappearing Delta

The Return of Artificial Intelligence

The Impact of Wilderness Tourism

Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass

The effects of light on plant and animal species

Rainforests

What Do Whales Feel?

Visual Symbols and the Blind

Lost for Words

Alternative Medicine in Australia

Play Is a Serious Business

Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth

Volcanoes – earth-shattering news

Obtaining Linguistic Data

How much higher? How much faster?

The Nature and Aims of Archaeology

The Problem of Scarce Resources

The Rocket — From East to West

The Risks of Cigarette Smoke

The Scientific Method

A Remarkable Beetle

Environmental management

The Concept of Role Theory

The Department of Ethnography

Amazonia

Weather and human moods

Air pollution

The Purple, White and Green

Measuring Organisational Performance

Airports on Water

Changing our Understanding of Health

Children’s Thinking

Implementing the Cycle of Success: A Case Study

The Language Barrier

What Is a Port City?

Absenteeism in Nursing: A Longitudinal Study

The Motor Car

Biometric Security

Green Wave Washes Over Mainstream Shopping

Learning to Read

The Human Genome Project

A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life

Zoo conservation programmes

Architecture – Reaching for the Sky

Right and left-handedness in humans

Migratory beekeeping

Tourism

Spoken corpus comes to life

Moles happy as homes go underground

A workaholic economy

Glass – Capturing the dance of light

Why some women cross the finish line ahead of men

Population viability analysis

William Henry Perkin

Is There Anybody Out There?

The History of the Tortoise

Reading Passage1 —Hearing Impairment

Venus in Transit

A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

Attitudes to Language

Tidal Power

Information Theory —The Big Idea

The Life and Work of Marie Curie

Young Children’s Sense of Identity

The Development of Museums

A Chronicle of Timekeeping

Air Traffic Control in the USA

Telepathy

Sheet Glass Manufacture:The Float Process

The Little Ice Age

The Meaning and Power of Smell

Striking Back at Lightning with Lasers

The Nature of Genius

Reading Passage3 —Ageing

Land of the Rising Sum

Biological Control of Pests

Collecting Ant Specimens

Let’s Go Bats

Making Every Drop Count

Educating Psyche

Why Pagodas Don’t Fall Down

The True Cost of Food

Makete Integrated Rural Transport Project

Ant Intelligence

Population Movements and Genetics

Reading Passage3 —Forests

Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids

Endless Harvest

Effects of Noise