Time-lapse satellite images show glacial retreat at Mount Kilimanjaro, Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching, deforestation in Germany and Greenland glacial melt Google is marking Earth Day with t...
A study of how Facebook, Google and Microsoft have applied the EU’s new GDPR rules shows users are being manipulated One of the most influential books published in the last decade was Nudge: ...
As a popular search engine marks the great lexicographer’s birthday, it’s a good time for some defining questions. Can you get them right without Googling? Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/18/how-well-do-you-know-samuel-johnsons-dictionary-quiz
Google’s ‘doodle’ today celebrates the achievements of an entrepreneur from Ghana who helped to empower millions of women through business Esther Afua Ocloo founded her first company with...
As the queen of the headdress is commemorated on the 108th anniversary of her birth, we look back at some of her best moments Continue reading...
The story of the groundbreaking director behind today’s Google doodle and how her fairytale-inspired work made her one of the most important early women in the film industry Lotte Reiniger, a...
28 AUGUST 1923: Ayrton, celebrated in a Google doodle, was the first woman to receive the Hughes Medal from the Royal Society and an active suffragette We regret to announce that Mrs. Hertha Ay...
• 120 years since the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens • Art and design: Olympic posters 1896 – 2008 Google has marked the 120th anniversary of the first modern Olympic Games with its l...
Google has celebrated the astronomical start of the season – the spring equinox – but in reality spring has been arriving weeks early for years Google has marked the first day of spring wit...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/mar/20/spring-equinox-google-doodle-season
Today’s Google doodle is dedicated to Caroline Herschel, a German astronomer who would have been 266 today Although widely known as the sister of William Herschel who discovered the planet Ur...
In August 1797 Caroline Herschel was about to announce her eighth comet. The way in which she did tells us much about her character, and the lot of an 18th-century female astronomer Because tod...
Today’s Google doodle celebrates the birthday of the radical artist who brought joy to dada, when Switzerland was a revolutionary hotbed of culture You must remember the place where punk bega...
Artist Sophie Diao has imagined scenes from three stories by the French author who collected fairytales such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty Once upon a time, a search engine named Google deci...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/12/who-charles-perrault-google-doodle
Google has marked the 201st anniversary of Adolphe Sax’s birth – and here are five songs that wouldn’t have been the same without his invention It’s the 201st anniversary of Adolphe Sax...
A chunky PC, lava lamp and the 1998 Google logo encourage users to wish the company a happy birthday There was a beautiful array of autumnal vegetables for the Google doodle marking the chang...
Search engine honours 70th edition of food fight festival in Spanish town of Buñol, which does not actually grow tomatoes La Tomatina is a strange festival. It attracts tens of thousands of tou...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/26/la-tomatina-inspires-a-cheerfully-messy-google-doodle
They may look cutesy, but the 15 years of homepage drawings are a corporate attempt to co-opt human progress from cave paintings to the digital age This probably marks me down for instant refusa...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/14/google-doodles
Follow USA v Japan – live Or in Japanese here Google has marked the Women’s World Cup final with a new Google Doodle on the search engine’s homepage. The doodle is arranged in the blu...
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/05/womens-world-cup-2015-google-doodle-final
Google’s French site marks creation of cartoon designed after hearing a child’s request for candy floss Barbapapa, the splodgy pink cartoon character beloved by French schoolchildren and tr...
Danish seismologist, who was born on 13 May 1888, discovered the existence of the Earth’s inner core Google’s latest doodle celebrates the birthday of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, who ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/13/inge-lehmann-google-doodle