When inheriting a garden with history, the most commonly asked question is what should we keep and what should we let go? Do you try to hold everything in a static state or embrace change and evolutio

IF YOUR LAWN IS LOOKING MORE BOGGY THAN VERDANT, HERE’S HOW TO RESCUE IT

Discover the dangers and benefits of Earth’s cracked crust. Is there a fault line beneath your feet?

There’s a worrying problem with the ‘Higgs field’ — the energy field that gives particles their mass. It seems to be dangerously close to having an inherent instability. In the absence of particles, t

In this extract from Peter Wise’s new book, an angler is fishing an ice-age lake where the coffin containing an evil monk who was reputed to have come back from the dead was once dumped. But the past is coming back to haunt him…

How dead plants and animals decay, and how living organisms rely on this natural process to survive