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Pacific Ocean chokes on plastic pollution

In Plastic Ocean, Captain Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillips argue vehemently against the Pacific's plastic problems, but facts are found wanting

Behind the scenes of 15 great discoveries

Renaissance learning that shaped Galileo’s genius

Birth of biotech: Revisiting Genentech’s glory days

Climate change in your wildest imaginings

The artist and the proton smasher

Revived echoes augment research results

A DIY guide to marvelling at the sky

Was Sybil a psychiatrist’s creation?

What is your place in nature?

Poet and linguist Melanie Challenger tours half the the world in On Extinction: How we became estranged from nature

Postdoc dramas on film

Glimpses of Einstein’s personal life through travel

A post-fossil-fuel world

Stumbling onto remedies