“Money isn’t funny” is a comedy maxim. But can it ever be ghostly? For example, how about when money drops from thin air? A ghost story about materialising cash sounds very odd, but it is what a trio

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I found Ben Timberlake’s article [FT465:38-41] about seeing gnome-like entities through a military night-vision sight rather interesting. Ben puts forward a theory about spores from fungi being a cont

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Dave Lewis recalls a trip to explore the National Museum of Wales’ collection of rare and unusual fish, and asks why these sorts of catches seem to be becoming more common

A centrepiece of Prof Stephen Hawking’s theory of black holes states that black holes can only grow. Thanks to precision observations made with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory