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Environment News

James Lovelock, one of Britain’s greatest scientists, is famous for developing the Gaia hypothesis, which sees the Earth as a self-regulating system. In his long and influential career, he also revealed the chemicals that were destroying the ozone layer. He’s just celebrated his 101st birthday and the BBC’s chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt visited him …

Technology

Edgar Allan Poe, the original American Luddite, once described science as “a vulture, whose wings are dull realities.” It had, he insisted, “dragged Diana from her car … driven the Hamadryad from the wood … torn the Elfin from his green grass,” and stolen from him “the summer dream beneath the tamarind tree.” In other …