Today’s queues may be digital, but the fight to secure that must-have present and avoid small, disappointed faces is timeless. Tom Howells looks at the toys topping recent (and less recent) Christmas wish lists

Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom

Let’s take a nostalgia trip back 30 years to discover how the most-wanted toys of the festive season season worked

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Even if you’re apprehensive about technology, you almost certainly often use it without even realising – such as scrolling through Instagram on your phone, asking Alexa a question or planning a route

CAR editor-at-large and Nostradamus-in-chief Mark Walton doesn’t like ...