Tides are normally so predictable because of the way they are governed by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun (Credit: Alamy) The way the water moves across the basin is changing, which is having quite a profound effect on the tides – Ivan Haigh The Thames Barrier helps to protect London …

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Nestlé’s sleek, chic capsule system changed the way we drink coffee. But in an age when everyone’s a coffee snob and waste is wickedness, can it survive? In 1975, a young engineer named Eric Favre took a trip to Rome that would change the history of coffee. Favre had recently started working at …

For centuries, cities have been plagued by periodic crises. The Great Plague of 1665 killed 70,000 Londoners, and those who could afford to leave …