IF IT WASN’T FOR my bank balance, I’d be a tool addict. But resisting the urge to acquire more and more tools has become rather difficult lately, ever since toolmakers have bec ...

WINNING LETTER Hot desk It’s been two years now that my husband, who’s an IT business unit manager, has been working from our home in Durban because of the coronavirus pandemic ...

1 JULY 1986 ‣ Silent Running According to the cover story of this issue, in the mid-’80s, airships were back! The three-page feature kicked off with an account of a demonstrati ...

A V-22 OSPREY lands on board HMS Prince of Wales, during its planned deployment earlier this year to Norway as the NATO command ship. A second V-22 can be seen in the background, o ...

PLANTS ARE TRULY extraordinary. Some more so than others. Take the opium poppy – while its seeds are commonly used in cakes, the flower pod contains natural quantities of morphin ...

THE CUSTOMERS WHO TYPICALLY BUY Harley-Davidsons are getting too old to keep riding, and too few young buyers are taking their place. Part of the solution, Harley management says, ...

INDIA PALE ALES DOMINATE TODAY’S CRAFT beer landscape, with 10 or so styles laying claim to the name. Now there’s one more: the ‘clear hazy’ IPA. San Diego’s Ballast Poin ...

AS ANIMALS GO, HUMANS HAVE RELAtively limited senses. We can’t smell as well as dogs, see as many colours as mantis shrimp, or find our way home using the Earth’s magnetic pole ...