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Features and BackgroundThere's a lot of politics in the peception of skin colour ... [more] 
Bloodhound supercar looks to break 1000 miles per hour ... [more] Science fair turns the tables, with students judging professors and researchers ... [more] Flowering plants continue to pose what Darwin called an abominable mystery ... [more] As if the nicotine is not bad enough, cigarettes are a haven for pathogenic bacteria too ... [more] Green corridors created by high-voltage power lines can provide critical homes for faltering species ... [more] Sugar-coated polymer could help fight allergies and asthma ... [more] Catalina Island gives its bison a dose of birth control ... [more] Set your photozapper to stun! ... [more] Shifting blame is socially contagious ... [more] 
Ancient lake mud provides a clue to the demise of the mammoth ... [more] You may not be able to learn while you're sleeping, but sleeping can help enhance your rmemories ... [more] Did rats kill Easter Island? ... [more] Plasma rocket proposed as a mail-carrier for outer space, a garbage truck for orbital debris and, the ultimate goal, a shuttle to Mars ... [more] New fossils reveal a Cretaceous world teeming with different types of crocodiles ... [more] Outlandish planet has a wierdly wonky orbit ... [more] Computer simulations show that the neural circuits required for consciousness could be tiny enough to fit into an insect's brain ... [more] The last Ice Age took just six months to arrive ... [more] Relics from 300 to 3000 years ago turn up in a casino's backyard ... [more] The evolutionary march of the penguins happened in double time ... [more] If you want your kids to stay slim, let them sleep in on the weekends ... [more] Dogs do it, lions do it, even babies in the womb do it -- so why do we yawn? ... [more] Advanced WWII super-submarines found beneath the waves ... [more] Skin tone beats symmetry in the perceived beauty stakes ... [more] The golden sands of Wakiki may become a thing of the past ... [more] Placid lake is a freshwater time bomb ... [more] Why do we find the not-alive-but-almost -- whether dead bodies, robot mannequins or animated characters -- so very unsettling? ... [more] Keeping cool in a cardiac arrest is a good thing ... [more] Earthquakes and lava flows are expanding Russia's frontiers ... [more] New solar sail project in the wind [more] ... [more] The stinky Raffelsia flower gets pride of place in new eco-tourism venture that might save it ... [more] Could deep brain stimulation help relieve depression? ... [more] Carbon dioxide captured from power plants could make geothermal energy more practical ... [more] A once-mysterious neural pathway may have a crucial role in making injured areas overly sensitive to touch ... [more] Don't be too smug about your ability to multi-task ... [more] We still have a lot to learn about strange lights in the sky ... [more] Miss Piggy's cousins can be mirror-hogs too ... [more] Mixing alcohol and cocaine leads to a highly toxic brew in the liver and major health issues later on ... [more] Microbes in and on the human body choose their digs according to three strict rules: location, location, location ... [more] The AIDS virus is the leading global cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44 ... [more] Gamma-ray flashes found in lightning ... [more] Wozzat? We're breeding mice with golden ears that stay sharp as they age ... [more] |
Books and MediaWould we have had Alien, Planet of the Apes and The Time Machine if it weren't for a certain bearded Victorian? ... [more] Even ancient body parts hold a certain fascination ... [more] A new infrared image reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy consumed several hundred million years ago ... [more] Are we ignoring others because we can't tear ourselves away from Facebook, chat rooms and online games? ... [more] The life of Soviet rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovskii was even more complex and far more interesting than the legend ... [more] I've looked at clouds from both sides now ... [more] Super-sun star-birth seen in time-lapse movie of Orion ... [more] What really happens when you donate your body to a medical school? ... [more]
The military will try anything to get an edge -- even staring at goats ... [more] There's a lot more to islands than white sands and palm trees, as a space-high view will show ... [more] Check out a panorama of the universe ... [more] How primordial is our sense of justice? ... [more] The psychological study of children provides a rich source of insight into consciousness, identity and morality ... [more] There's still more to learn from the dust of Pompeii ... [more] Giant squid vs sperm whale -- check out these rare photos of when two giants of the deep meet ... [more] What can superheroes tell us about the psychology of mere mortals? ... [more] And then it exploded -- the whale, the bomb, the 20,000 pounds of sodium pushed into a lake ... [more] Jacques who? What has and will become of the Cousteau legacy? ... [more] Hubble's spectacular views of space just keep coming, but the universe really is beige or perhaps cosmic latter ... [more] There are endless ideas in evolutionary psychology but often precious little evidence ... [more] There's a certain degree of irony in watching an online video about an analogue blogger using a blackboard to bring news ... [more] Of news and risks and curious maps, of carnivores and things ... [more] What is good food and what is good medicine, and what are both? ... [more] A map charts the genuinely epic story of Europe’s quest to explore the unknown ... [more] Scientific knowledge has dissociated itself from wisdom and this has made it dangerously and damagingly irrational ... [more] Positive thought control obscures judgment and shields us from vital information ... [more] Science has set out to explain human life and its origins but has succeeded only in emphasizing that life is a mystery and we a mystery to ourselves ... [more] Is the Superfreakonomics solution to global warming economic or just freaky? [more] ... [more] We constantly invent categories with which to classify and group one another ... [more] Welcome to the Arctic -- a sorry mess of brutality and ignorance, cruelty and environmental pillage; and resilience and beauty ... [more] Exploring science and art and the limits of perception ... [more] Take another look at time and space here and far far away ... [more] What can science fiction tell us about the mind, consciousness and what it means to be human? ... [more] The incendiary politics of a monster wildfire and the leafy legacy that resulted ... [more] Apocalyptic cosmophobia gets a boost from conflating movie marketing hype, Mayan mythology and bad astronomy ... [more] Augmented reality coming to an iPhone near you ... [more] Picturing the Uncertain World is not so much about uncertainty or graphical display as about how we communicate and interpret facts ... [more] Check out Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking in a new age rap ballad about the universe and humankind’s effort to explore it ... [more] Primo Levi's blend of fiction, non-fiction, allegory and reality wrapped in a metaphor of chemistry brings us a layered vision ... [more] A sobering title -- Where the Wild Things Were ... [more] |
Analysis and OpinionThe bloody reality of guts and gore is even more fascinating than the fiction ... [more] Large-scale space tourism is not a hoax -- it is a realistic future possibility ... [more] 
We need a better approach to wildlife management if we're to help our flora and fauna weather global warming ... [more]
The top three most effective and achievable emissions reductions are getting a fuel-efficient vehicle, weatherization and buying more efficient appliances ... [more] Evolution has endowed us with a genetic predisposition towards religion, and it is culture, not genetics, that then supplies the content of what is learned ... [more] The UK gets ready to put evolution in the primary school curriculum ... [more] 
Is the end of the world really nigh? ... [more] Senior UK scientists are calling on the government to guarantee that scientific advice remains free from political interference ... [more] Can evolution and religion really live happily side by side? ... [more] Don't believe everything you read about genetic breakthroughs in prestigious journals -- a lot of it is simply wrong ... [more]
Climate change sceptics or suckers -- perhaps Planck's Principle is called for ... [more] Is a single shared ecosystem enough to bring together the US, Mexico and Cuba? ... [more] No sooner has Asperger consciousness awakened than the disorder seems headed for psychiatric obsolescence ... [more] For the money it takes to save one life with carbon cuts, smarter policies could save 78,000 lives ... [more] Gasp, shock, horror -- those tabloid headlines can be true (just not truth as we know it) ... [more] What can the language of smiles tell us? ... [more] There is another growing creationist movement which is fueling challenges to science in countries where Christianity has little sway ... [more] Could Richard Branson be around to personally make Virgin Galactic interstellar? ... [more] The FDA has never pulled a drug off the market for lacking info about its actual benefits ... [more] Should there be subsidies for vast high-voltage lines to transport wind and solar electricity to big cities? ... [more] What, if anything, does an ancient associate tell us about contemporary behaviour? ... [more] Can we reinvent the way we farm? ... [more] Geology field course has all the humor, drama, exacting challenges and bleepable moments of Survivor, but with a lot more reality ... [more] When is a species endangered? ... [more] Should morbidly obese children be taken from their parents? ... [more] Could ships spraying sea mist to boost cloud reflectivity cure climate change? ... [more] Nerds and geeks are becoming normalised, for a certain value of normal ... [more] Will the Pill be responsible for the death of humankind? ... [more] Can you tell if a man is dangerous simply by looking at his face? ... [more] The UK Border Agency has used untested science to decide a person's race and origin, and therefore future ... [more] Is the Large Hadron Collider sabotaging itself from the future? ... [more] At least 1.7% of people are born with one of several dozen possible intersexual conditions, so what, if anything, should we do about it? ... [more] Contaminated health supplements represent an emerging risk to public health ... [more] After-school science clubs are boosting children's interest in important and vulnerable subjects ... [more] When America showed up on a map, it was the universe that got transformed ... [more] The choice to be vegetarian has traditionally been about health and ethics, but environmental reasons are becoming more powerful ... [more] It's swine flu we should fear, not the vaccine that saves us ... [more] Being able to track items from farm gate to food plate means better consumer protection ... [more] Why not make green use of old abandoned highways as special routes for electric cars? ... [more] Analysis of the historical connection between war and climate questions if rising temperatures and violence really do go hand in hand ... [more] Life is tenacious ... [more] Just because a seed comes from an heirloom variety, doesn't make it automatically superior to the modern monocultural versions ... [more] |
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