New Scientist The green Earth – care of Disney
David Hall visits Walt Disney's ideal world of high and low tech food production where erosion and exploding populations pose no threat to human survival. On the way he learns about the plants themselves and how they work for us
New Scientist Perpetual youth
Mickey Mouse has changed subtly over the years. Did the artists who created him know what they were doing?
New Scientist Science meets Mickey Mouse
An army of Walt Disney designers is turning a desolate piece of Florida scrubland into what it hopes will be a paean to the latest technical innovations