In the spotlight

From strange lights in the sky to rocks that spontaneously glide across the ground, the mysteries scientists are trying to finally crack

STANDING in the forest at 11 p.m. on a Scottish island, I feel like I’ve gone through the looking glass. The grass is purple, the trees look like they’re sheeted in aluminium, the leaves are red and t

Fireflies are kept inside webs for as long ...

A year in the life of the eighteenth-century naturalist

An early-morning dog walk through the woods sees John Lewis-Stempel coming face to face–or skin to spider silk–with the industrious magic of a September dawn

Ben Bassett reveals how night fishing under the glow of city street lights can produce some exciting and unexpected results