Martha Henriques

Adam Smith has spent 18 years recording the moments after the world's brightest minds receive a life-changing call from the Nobel Prize committee.

The behaviour of the world’s most powerful storms is evolving. To adapt to more destructive hurricanes, we need to know how they’re changing.

Scientists are racing to update the imperfect system we rely on to warn just how deadly a storm will be.

Cepillarse los dientes efectivamente reduce las probabilidades de sufrir una serie de enfermedades crónicas además de mantener sanos tus dientes y encías. Aquí un grupo de expertos te recomienda cómo hacerlo de la manera apropiada.

To tame a hopelessly disorganised Roman calendar, Julius Caesar added months, took them away, and invented the leap year.

Twenty years after “craftivism” was born, Future Planet traces its threads through the climate movement.

As leaders gather at COP28 in Dubai to discuss the climate crisis and negotiate commitments to address it, we consider one of the most important numbers: 1.5C.

Renewable electricity has pushed through a series of positive tipping points in recent years, with 2023 set to pass a major milestone.

Old coal mines could have a role to play in heating homes, without burning fossil fuels. Martha Henriques explores the buildings heated from old mine workings.

The world is reliant on international shipping and emissions from the sector are growing. Will sustainable seafaring mean a return to sail-powered ships?

A new international treaty aims to support protection of the high seas – what will this mean for deep-sea mining?

Concrete is the defining material of the Anthropocene and takes a terrible toll on the climate. Martha Henriques goes in search of the ways it could be better for the climate.

Mental health workers in Ukraine have been providing urgent psychological care since Russia’s full-scale invasion. Their work could limit the mental health repercussions of war.

The arrow of time began its journey at the Big Bang, and when the Universe eventually dies there will be no more future and no past. In between, what is it that drives time onward?

Uncannily well-preserved bodies from the ancient world occasionally surface Northern Europe’s bogs. Stranger even than their remarkable preservation is the manner of their deaths.

Sixty-six million years ago, our ancestors lived through the most violent event in the Earth’s history. How did small, insignificant mammals survive a doomsday asteroid?

Brushing your teeth effectively lowers your chances of getting a host of chronic diseases, as well as keeping your teeth and gums healthy. But the majority of us are doing it wrong.

Your teeth and gums have a wide-ranging impact on your health, from your risk of Alzheimer’s, to diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Hypnosis is emerging as a powerful medical treatment for pain, anxiety, PTSD and a range of other conditions. Can it shake off its reputation as a stage magician’s trick?

Beneath the frozen wastes of the Arctic, a three-way geopolitical tug-of-war is taking place over which country owns a ridge of undersea mountains. The winner will change maps forever.