Features

In the forests near Asheville, rare fireflies known as "blue ghosts" are lighting up the woods – and helping a storm-battered mountain city recover through tourism.

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away – to learn about the makeup of the Universe.

Inhabited over the centuries by hermits, monks, farmers and lighthouse keepers, the remote Calf of Man is both a time capsule and frontier of seabird regeneration efforts.

From the hundreds of titles that premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival, here are the ones which are going to be big talking points all through 2025.

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north.

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong's dystopian feature film debut, premiering on HBO, imagines a world run by super-rich tycoons, and has "timely resonance" in this "high-tech moment".

Konstantine Vlasis never imagined that a single track on a Sigur Rós album would lead him to studying the ice on Iceland's highest peaks.

Set in the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil, The Secret Agent "makes up in pulpy excitement what it lacks in subtlety", and "bursts with sex, shoot-outs and sleazy hitmen".