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Features and Background
Nerve-zapper looks like a promising way to beat obesity ... [more]
Why not spin up a tornado and then extract energy from its tethered tail? ... [more]
Rapid changes in the churning of Earth's liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface ... [more]
The book of birds is being rewritten by genetic discoveries ... [more]
Facial recognition technology in a remote control means looking puzzled will prompt a rewind ... [more]
Athletes are putting their performance hopes in Viagra ... [more]
A solar sail may finally get a chance to unfurl ... [more]
Volcanic nanoparticles of mercury end up in polar ice ... [more]
The skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth's history could help us understand how fish came to walk on land ... [more]
His master's voice puts a strain on teacher vocal cords ... [more]
Scratching is one of the sweetest gratifications of nature, but where does the itch come from? ... [more]
Tunguska -- still a mystery a century after the big badda boom ... [more]
Take your apartment for a spin ... [more]
Medieval monks fell prey to mercury ... [more]
Telling one penguin from another has just gotten easier ... [more]
Girls are no less competitive than boys, they simply employ more subtle tactics ... [more]
Why have a building named after yourself when you could be immortalised by a sea slug instead? ... [more]
Plants are heading for the hills ... [more]
First your home computer could help find alien life, now it could help find out more about cancer ... [more]
No bees to rent -- no food to eat ... [more]
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Books and Media
While we many not be rational, we all make the same irrational choices, so they are predictable ... [more]
There is more to time than just clocks and circadian rhythms ... [more]
The basis for humour is pattern recognition ... [more]
The Wisdom of Whores is a rollicking, eye-opening, hilarious account of theunderbelly of international AIDS research ... [more]
The factions and follies of psychiatry in five books ... [more]
Why are both sides wrong in the race debate? ... [more]
The sense of smell is underappreciated, even when special smells threaten to become extinct ... [more]
Imagine being able to project images into someone else's photographs [more] ... [more]
So what does objectivity actually entail? ... [more]
Every culture and subculture gets the drugs that it deserves, so what did we do to deserve methylenedioxymethamphetamine? ... [more]
Expert policy advisers would do best tofunction as honest brokers of scientific alternatives, recognising limits and uncertainties ... [more]
So how does the mind work? ... [more]
Medieval masons used geometry to unfold an entire cathedral, such as Chatres, from inside a square ... [more]
Hard core video-gaming has risen from the basement to the Big Time ... [more]
Here's someone who captures the ethereal beauty of wading birds with the flair of a painter and the passion of an activist ... [more]
Science is one of the most dramatic narratives our species can tell ... [more]
Now you can see the world through x-ray eyes ... [more]
Forget predicting what's going to happen next year or even next century -- what will the world be like a million years from now? ... [more]
Could video games replace the textbook? ... [more]
The Hubble Space Telescope and its stunning images have captured the hearts of the public, even if they do not grasp the astronomical significance ... [more]
You should appreciate the complexity, chaos and wonder of what's going on in your gut ... [more]
Books dealing with individual naturalists rarely give a sense of the entangled webs that have always made the world of natural history work ... [more]
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions will make you not want to leave the TV, let alone the planet ... [more]
Trust your instincts in calculating the odds and you’re likely to get it wrong. ... [more]
Whether reckless, megalomaniac or elitist in construction, the mysteries behind Stonehenge remain ... [more]
As they visited more and more nuclear establishments, the authors of A Nuclear Family Vacation lost their confidence in nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence [more] ... [more]
Half the battle of getting through a disaster is just cognitively knowing you can survive; the other half is making it happen ... [more]
The lauding of lone geniuses making breakthroughs perpetuates a misleading image of science that may alienate as many as it fascinates ... [more]
The Victorian stage was set for every fraud and phoney and quisling quack to make with the metaphysical mumbo-jumbo ... [more]
The survey of a life of no ordinary surveyor ... [more]
Add unsustainable farming methods to a spiralling demand for food and you have a society heading for catastrophe ... [more]
For many kids, computers are more of a distraction than a learning opportunity ... [more]
We know that whale songs are complex messages, but we still don't know what they mean or what we could learn from them, and now they may be under threat ... [more]
When and how did the behaviours that we associate with modern humankind emerge? ... [more]
Mirrors in the Brain: How our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience ... [more]
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Analysis and Opinion
Our little bubble of thought-filled space grows year by year ... [more]
Paper tiger fraud exposes questions of corruption and accountability ... [more]
Homosexuality may persist because the associated genes convey surprising advantages on family members ... [more]
In his studies of entropy and the irreversibility of time, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll is exploring the idea that our universe is part of a larger structure ... [more]
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Celebrating 150 years of the survival of the wisest ... [more]
Should the Buddhas blasted by the Taliban be rebuilt? ... [more]
Spain may be better known for bull-fighting than animal rights but it's to be the first national legislature to support rights for non-human great apes ... [more]
Suicides linked to phone masts, but check out the rest of the story before you start protesting ... [more]
How do creative partnerships work? ... [more]
Reading should not be believing, especially when it comes to health coverage in the media ... [more]
Science is losing significant numbers of women in their 30s due to the extreme work pressures ... [more]
Instead of using arable farmland or coastal wetlands for biofuels, why not use abandoned land? ... [more]
Relying on unverifiable casual wildlife observations, such as those of the ivory-billed woodpecker, can hinder successful conservation efforts ... [more]
My research progress report has been tied up in bureaucracy and it's all the Pope's fault ... [more]
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Mathematical formulas create reality ... [more]
What do you do when coastal erosion means your property ends up part of a public beach? ... [more]
The quality of rice is more important that the quantity ... [more]
Is thanking God for evolution a sign of a sensible compromise or an attack on science? ... [more]
When we look to the ancient past for clues about whether global warming will cause mass extinctions, what we learn is not encouraging ... [more]
It's time to get more aggressive with brain cancer ... [more]
One of Britain's leading brain scientists has profound fears about the way new technology is changing our thought patterns and behaviour ... [more]
Leo Szilard had a Eureka moment in a London Square ... [more]
The cost of care for premature babies is some 15 times the expense of full-term infants and rising -- so is there such a thing as too young? ... [more]
So you've had a genetic test -- now what? ... [more]
Inadequate funding and lack of political commitment pose significant challenges to meeting the world’s sanitation goals ... [more]
In science, as in life, some stories are too good to be true, such as the crater of dooom idea ... [more]
As we face the possibility of a significant increase in lifespan, we have to ask does death give meaning to our lives? ... [more]
Maybe we’re now spending so much more time with consumer objects than with our natural environments that we have forgotten how to think about the latter ... [more]
Computer game addicts suffer from more shame and are harder to treat than their computer porn confreres ... [more]
When forming attitudes about embryonic stem cell research, people are influenced by a number of things, but scientific information isn't one of them ... [more]
Pop culture references to the butterfly effect may be bad physics, but they're a good barometer of how the public thinks about science ... [more]
"Lost" Amazon tribes know where they are and what they are doing there ... [more]
Medical science has progressed fairly steadily, but health policy has thrashed about like a flatworm swimming through a solution of LSD ... [more]
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