Science, Health and Saving Things

I began writing this article after five cups of good coffee, and it turned out to be one of the best articles I had ever written. It had fluency and style, and a narrative drive that gripped the reader …

They do not look like a family who were once in turmoil. Frank is 91, gentle, elegantly dressed, balding, charming, a former GP. Sara, his wife, is a few years younger and has devoted her life to …

Zaha Hadid, the most acclaimed female architect of our age, has struggled for years with a hurtful dilemma. Despite her fame and success, despite an international reputation that has seen …

Not so long ago polar bears were a symbol of cold, but these days they are a symbol of warmth. It has become difficult to open a newspaper or web page without seeing photographs of …

In the dim and trivial past, when some of us on this fragile planet still gave a moment’s thought to the marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the big issue was not the prenup, the dress or …

In September 2006, something unusual started happening to my thirst. I was drinking more than I had ever done before, mostly water, and after one glass I wanted another. For a day or so I …