Viktor Frankl (Image: Wikipedia) People usually imagine that difficult situations are what make life unbearable. It sounds like a reasonable assumption because it matches what most of us see around us. Financial stress weighs people down. Illness changes families. Relationships break. Careers take unexpected turns. Some periods feel unfair even when someone has done everything…

The link between artificial light at night, street lights, light pollution, biodiversity destruction, nocturnal fauna, bats, insects, and birds is becoming more evident in modern environmental science. It has been suggested that too much light during the night not only causes comfort for humans but also becomes a serious threat to the environment. Research concerning…

For 25 years, the ISS was the only address humans kept beyond Earth. It is closing. What replaces it is not one station; it is an orbital economy, built by private companies and designed to manufacture things that cannot be made on the ground.In November 2000, two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut moved into…

What began as a question about polluted drinking water has now turned three Indian teenagers into internationally recognised young innovators. Sixteen-year-olds Vivaan Chhawchharia, Ariana Agarwal and Avyana Mehta have been named the Asia winners of The Earth Prize 2026 for creating ‘Plas-Stick’, a biodegradable solution which removes microplastics from water using powdered tamarind seeds. Inspired…

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly a thousand miles off the coast of Ecuador, the seafloor has been keeping time. Every five to six years, in almost the same locations, at almost the same intensity, a magnitude 6 earthquake strikes with a regularity so precise that scientists reached for the word “clockwork” to describe…