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Features and BackgroundCan you really smell memories? ... [more] 
Robots and space elevators climb into competition ... [more] Minor lifestyle changes looks to prevent diabetes over the long term ... [more] There is an unforeseen link between the hunting behavior of a top predator and biochemical hot spots on the landscape ... [more] What does big bang technology bring us on Guy Fawkes Night? ... [more] Volcanic activity on Mercury more recent than thought ... [more] Evidence of killer tsunami from ancient Thera eruption found in Israel ... [more] African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making ... [more] How did the Great Oxidation Event transform our planet? ... [more] Mild exercise can significantly reduce the risk of early death from heart disease, specially if you're stressed ... [more] 
What makes us self-aware and how can you test it? ... [more] New clues point to the puzzling origin of the Falklands wolf [more] ... [more] Digital plaster could replace bulky monitoring machines ... [more] Humpback whales will engage in singalongs ... [more] What does it take to get a robot to care? ... [more] Ancient spider web preserved in amber ... [more] Modelling the climate just got a little more complex and a little more accurate ... [more] Green ships could help polluted harbours recover ... [more] Robotic airships and satellites will fly above distant worlds, commanding wheeled rovers and floating robot boats ... [more] The enigmatic Mona Lisa smile depends on which part of the eye sees it first ... [more] Court retainers in ancient Ur came to a pointed end ... [more] Chickens immunised with GM peas ... [more] Human stem cells have been turned into early-stage sperm and eggs, providing an unprecedented insight into the causes of infertility ... [more] If your teapot dribbles, blame the hydro-capillary effect ... [more] Dopamine is less about pleasure and reward and more about drive and motivation ... [more] How Galileo's spy-glass upended science ... [more] Of ghoulies and ghosties and other real Halloween horrors in our past ... [more] Fend off Death with a REALLY GOOD CURRY ... [more] Domestic violence could be more a calculated strategy than a spontaneous outburst ... [more] Clever lampposts double the strength of the light they cast when they detect human body heat, then go back to dim ... [more] Lucrative inventions pit scientists against universities ... [more] Hurricane history could be recorded on seismometers ... [more] If you want to quit smoking, exercise more ... [more] Volcanoes played a warming role to kick off a deadly ice age ... [more] People with phantom limbs learn physically impossible body tricks ... [more] If we can't find life-bearing planets, how about hunting for life-friendly moons instead ... [more] Lady Macbeth was right -- you can regulate morality thorugh cleanliness ... [more] Claimed meteorite crash-site was a marketing hoax to put Latvia on the map ... [more] New biofuels will on average emit more carbon dioxide over the next few decades than burning petrol ... [more] If you want to get a man to wash his hands, try making your message downright disgusting ... [more] A new royal tomb emerges from Mayan tunnels ... [more] Even pedestrian mobile-phone users are a hazard with their inattentional blindness ... [more] The habits of identical twins reveal how to keep a younger-looking face ... [more] Anti-cancer drug may help stop premature labour ... [more] We're learning more about our ancestral savannah ... [more] Trees respond to cosmic radiation ... [more] More debate on the place of Ida in the primate family tree [more] ... [more] |
Books and MediaAnd 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'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]
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] A Greek maths comic with Betrand Russell as the narrator proves a surprise hit ... [more] Superfreakonomics tells us more deaths are caused per mile, in the US, from drunk walking than drunk driving ... [more] Keeping track of how the Earth moves ... [more] NASA probe twittered a surprised sperm whale's last moments just before crashing on the Moon ... [more] Robotics is the most important weapons development since the atomic bomb ... [more] Finally a parenting book that has some solid science to it, even if it is often counter-intuitive ... [more] Can a 95-year-old book still inspire new generations of engineers? ... [more] The Link exposes the seedy underbelly of palaeontology ... [more] What were the inhibiting factors in Chinese civilisation which prevented the rise of modern science in Asia? ... [more] Ken Burns tells amazing tales of those people who envisioned, sculpted, and fought for national parks in the US ... [more] Darwinian psychology meets the female body ... [more] Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World ... [more] Your Inner Fish demonstrates that what works elegantly is often a messy hodgepodge ... [more] |
Analysis and OpinionClimate 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] 
For the money it takes to save one life with carbon cuts, smarter policies could save 78,000 lives ... [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] 
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]
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] Selfishness beats altruism within groups, altruistic groups beat selfish groups, and everything else is commentary ... [more] On being reincarnated as a buzzard [Ed: My pick would be an otter] ... [more] Minds are not like computers ... [more] The Enola bean biopiracy is a stark illustration of the danger of patenting life ... [more] If you want to live a more meaningful life, start by asking questions ... [more] Corporate control of seeds limits responses to global warming ... [more] Did the medieval world really lay the foundations of modern science? ... [more] Don’t blame global warming problems on rising population ... [more] Government crackdown may reduce classic Ignobel research ... [more] Can a remote, geologically weird island in the South Pacific forecast the fate of coral reefs? ... [more] Maybe we're just not that into space ... [more] Australia’s dust storms are a result of a lot of unwise decisions ... [more] Responsive dead salmon provides a cautionary tale ... [more] Where will synthetic biology lead us? ... [more] What makes someone an addict? ... [more] To create jobs and spur innovation we need to make it easier for scientists to build businesses that market their breakthroughs ... [more] Memories of the future prove hazy ... [more] Why is a huge outdoor smoking ban justified even in the absence of substantiating medical evidence? ... [more] |
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