Defy the ‘wellness’ industry: here are some simple ways to feel better in 2017

Diet and detox marketing makes us feel bad about our holiday season excess. But most of the best advice is obvious and cheap

We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years

At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them

Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights shows a world waking up to the future

With its giant strawberries and nudity, Hieronymus Bosch’s painting has been seen as a celebration and warning about sin – but it’s really about a Renaissance-era curiosity that helped better explain the world

Brace for the in-flight movie that never leaves the ground

A new film viewing experience – on a plane, on terra firma – is for the super-rich. Still, it shows how much we now prize luxury in the cinema

Diet drinks and other ways not to lose weight

It’s not just non-sugar fizz. From low fat to exercise highs, it’s time to expose a few other pound-shedding myths

Google’s satellite timelapses show the inconvenient truth about our planet

Google’s new Timelapse project allows you to see how anywhere in the world has changed in the last 32 years; from evaporating lakes to exploding cities, it’s a document of recklessness