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Features and BackgroundSimple questions about reproductive coercion can help women get out of abusive relationships ... [more] 
Debate heats up about the tortured geological past of Venus ... [more] The jury is in -- mammoths were not killed off by an asteroid impact ... [more] Tiny animals indicate the existence of an ancient sea passage across Antarctica ... [more] When older people read negative stories about younger folk, they get a boost in self-esteem ... [more] Tesla's idea of capturing electricity from the air gains a little more traction ... [more] Clean people feel morally superior and judge others more harshly ... [more] The end of the last Ice Age saw a great fizz of carbon dioxide ... [more] Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite may no longer be an option ... [more] There is a genetic link to migraines which may hold hope for sufferers ... [more] 
Sign language speakers' hands and mouths operate separately ... [more] Stem cells from reprogrammed adult cells bring along their donor's genetic defects, but there could be a silver lining ... [more] The radioactive decay of some elements sitting quietly in laboratories on Earth seem to be influenced by activities inside the Sun ... [more] Why bother with Spiderman when you can have a robot with sticky gecko feet ... [more] Computer models help put the Earth's interior processes into greater relief ... [more] Here's how the first super-massive black holes formed ... [more] It's b-a-a-a-ck -- the claim that Mars will appear to be so large that it will look as if Earth has two moons ... [more] Meet the new species on the block ... [more] Fluctuations in the Sun's energy can make our upper atmosphere collapse ... [more] Unselfish workers who are the first to offer to help with projects are among those that co-workers like the least ... [more] Dolphin DNA extracted from blowhole samples ... [more] Bacteria gobbling up undersea Gulf oil plume [more] ... [more] Biosynthetic corneas can help regenerate and repair damaged eye tissue and improve vision in humans ... [more] British apiarist finds bees that groom each other to remove varroa mites ... [more] Sunlight breaks asteroids into two, which then drift apart ... [more] Pea-sized micro-frogs discovered living inside pitcher plants in Borneo ... [more] If we could make one change to stave off climate change, it should be to get rid of black soot ... [more] Being an only child doesn't mean you're less able to make friends or can claim to be uniquely deprived ... [more] A little bit of venom could be just what the doctor ordered ... [more] Cyanobacteria breathed life into our ancient atmosphere ... [more] Spectacular 2,000-year-old Hellenistic-style wall paintings at Petra revealed under centuries of soot, grime and graffiti ... [more] How much we can learn about the intricacies of individual relationships by taking a bird’s-eye view of the online dating world? ... [more] By taking yearly tests and giving their brains to science after they die, members of religious orders help doctors understand more about Alzheimer's ... [more] Mass incarceration in the United States has a deep local concentration in relatively few disadvantaged communities ... [more] Mars mission technology helps keep Earth-based solar power installations clean ... [more] A DNA fingerprint in the blood shows promise in identifying which carriers of TB will go on to get symptoms and spread the infection ... [more] What lies beneath the Gulf -- a 35-km hydrocarbon plume 1,000 metres down ... [more] Beer goggles work by skewing your sense of symmetry ... [more] Some of our oceanic plastic is missing ... [more] Earlier examinations of the San Andreas fault line have badly undercounted the number of major earthquakes ... [more] The Moon is shrinking, just a little ... [more] Research near Mount St Helens proceeded despite bureaucratic hurdles, limited funding and an extremely hazardous environment ... [more] How's this for a challenge -- design a robot airplane to fly, with almost no human supervision, for a full year in an alien atmosphere nearly a billion miles away ... [more] Airborne sensors reveal a vast Mayan landscape ... [more] Maori cultural heritage and grassroots conservation combine in the story of New Zealand's longfin eel ... [more] Sharing memories can contaminate people's recollections and create false memories ... [more] Britain's oldest house is so old that when it was built the land was still part of Continental Europe ... [more] Brain scan promises to identify the hidden sufferers of autism ... [more] When did humans arrive in Southeast Asia? ... [more] A long-sealed tunnel has been found under the ruins of Teotihuacan ... [more] Any orangutans out there up for a game of charades? ... [more] The truth about how a drowning victim really goes down is far scarier, and more silent, than we’ve been led to believe ... [more] There's a lot of valuable carborundum lurking in that pile of old tyres ... [more] Some old technologies just refuse to roll over and die ... [more] Blue whale songs coalesce into a single frequency of 16 hertz, like a choir singing together ... [more] Some people seem to be able to sleep anywhere -- now we may know why [more] ... [more] |
Books and MediaFish deserve more respect ... [more] Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for smart solutions and significant investment in fighting global warming ... [more] A new set of maps shows us a biosphere that has been completely transformed by people ... [more] What is happiness? ... [more] You are here -- on an insignificant dot ... [more] Did psychic remote viewers really see industrial technology at work on Mars? ... [more] The eye of the spider ... [more] Meditate on pain as seen by art, literature, philosophy, religion and science ... [more]
The conflict over Navajo livestock in the 1930s-40s fits into a historical pattern of well-meaning conservationists alienating potential allies ... [more] What looks today like the scientific mapping of the features of the outermost reaches of the solar system began life as a response to the Cold War ... [more] Nature can be pretty ugly at times ... [more] China is destroying itself and threatening the rest of us ... [more] H.G. Wells was the futurity man ... [more] What is the Internet doing to our brains? ... [more] Packing for Mars is an often hilarious, sometimes queasy-making catalogue of the strange stuff devised to permit people to survive in an other-worldly environment ... [more] We get a sharper look at a galactic collision that has been going on for 100 million years ... [more] Video game players beat a specialist computer program in figuring out how 10 proteins fold into their three-dimensional configurations ... [more] Take a step towards the great mystery of Upper Palaeolithic art, an artistic, anthropological, archaeological, psychological or philosophical perspective ... [more] Audubon's first engraving discovered -- a grouse intended for a banknote ... [more] The Mundane Movement in science fiction looks to this planet, not to others ... [more] A humanzee takes centre stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ... [more] It was the politics of sport, not sustenance, that fueled the rapid spread of rainbow trout around the world ... [more] Stem cell researcher and artist Ariel Ruiz i Altaba successfully integrates the worlds of art and science ... [more] Let there be light, or maybe not ... [more] Some science fiction has made it into science fact, sort of ... [more] It is nearly impossible to take in a Robert McCall space painting and not feel that visceral yearning to conquer the last great frontier, even now ... [more] The Greatest Show on Earth reminds the reader of the power of a single idea ... [more] Early oceanography was a heady blend of improvisation and experimentation ... [more] The movie Inception raises interesting questions about the brain’s susceptibility to new ideas during dreaming ... [more] Google Earth spots a new meteor crater (new, geologically speaking) ... [more] Lego bricks go virtual in a multi-player online building empire ... [more] The Wave Watcher's Companion explores the undulations of everything from sound waves to stadium waves ... [more] Photoshopping PR images can lead to the wrong kind of PR, as BP is finding out ... [more] A 4,000-year backward glance at the history of science proves insightful ... [more] The movie Splice may get its lab setting right, but the scientists are still meddling with things that Man Was Not Meant To Know ... [more] If you think it's OK to pour fat down the sink, take a look at what can result ... [more] E O Wilson's autobiography Naturalist tells us of the great ant man's enchanted childhood and development into one of the patron saints of conservation ... [more] New technologies as revolutionary as the printing press are changing the concept of a book and what it means to be literate ... [more] Medical comics and graphic novels can be hilarious and harrowing ... [more] Taking video games seriously is like taking television seriously -- it contorts the sensitive mind into paroxysms of pleasure and shame ... [more] Explaining natural disasters doesn't really help our fear and awe of what we see ... [more] Seashells by the seashore ... [more] Explore Mars in high-resolution 3D and who knows what you might find ... [more] |
Analysis and OpinionMaybe we do live in a designed universe, but one created by a technological civilisation, not a god ... [more] Why would Academy Award winners live longer than those in second place -- inquiring minds want to know ... [more] 
Here's the story of one donor hoping to help unravel the mystery of Lou Gehrig's disease ... [more]
How did a man with a predilection for the hard-headed paradigms of scientific enquiry come to choose a faith-based foundation for his own life? ... [more] US stem cell research block -- a setback for science or rightly saving human embryos from destruction ... [more] Really big evolutionary changes happen when animals move into empty areas of living space, not when they compete ... [more] 
Rating murderers on a scale of evil could help us decide the risks of release ... [more] Batteries remain the bane of the electric car ... [more] Nanotechnology will change medicine as we know it ... [more] Pick a conspiracy theory from the top 10 ... [more]
Surgeons will soon replace your faulty organs with new ones grown in the lab ... [more] An 85-year-old unique seed bank is considered priceless and therefore worthless, so why not bulldozer it for a housing development [more] ... [more] How do you tell emergency room patients that they're dying? ... [more] Harboring racist feelings in a multicultural society can lead to chronic physical problems like cancer, hypertension and Type II diabetes ... [more] Questions raised regarding the accuracy of take-home kits for genetic testing [more] ... [more] The effects of cellphones are difficult to assess because they are an evolving new technology and any problems are hard-to-detect ones ... [more] Try the Steve Schneider Memorial Exercise in assessing planetary risk ... [more] What can hospital bounceback rates tell us about quality of care? ... [more] Problems with tissue-sharing are set to worsen as the era of personalized cancer treatment unfolds ... [more] Astronomer Royal Martin Rees believes sending people into space is pointless and a waste of money ... [more] Dodgy stem cell clinics sell hope, not science ... [more] How could progressives who worked for conservation, national health insurance and the rights of workers adopt eugenics as the next bright idea? ... [more] Humanity needs individuals who are free to dream up new realities, artistic or scientific ... [more] Few regions would lose out from geoengineering if they were willing to trade a large change in temperature for a smaller drop in precipitation ... [more] Computers could plough through data looking for patterns and connections, then tell scientists what they should do next ... [more] The evidence of octopus intelligence doesn’t show that we should treat them differently from other creatures, but nonetheless there remain some intriguing questions ... [more] Widespread academic fraud in China could hamper its drive for innovation ... [more] Bringing back samples from space is well worth the effort and expense ... [more] Just another week in the world of illegal wildlife trafficking: 117 elephant tusks, 2000 frozen pangolins, 5000 kg of bushmeat, and thousands of endangered animals intercepted ... [more] Disasters can spur innovation, so what can we learn from the Gulf oil spill? ... [more] Music should be celebrated (and studied) as a gymnasium for the mind; but ultimately its value lies with the way it enriches, socializes and humanizes us ... [more] Australia's top health standards body has been accused of subverting food science to fit a green agenda ... [more] Discovery certainly seems to be getting harder, but how much harder? ... [more] Children's media and science education projects often seem a generation or two behind, consumed by today's children but made by yesterday's ... [more] Both Hitler and Gandhi, for all their profound differences, are moral agents ... [more] To infinity and beyond -- time travelling with Stephen Hawking ... [more] Perfectly decent parents can produce toxic children ... [more] Humans probably won’t find intelligent aliens by eaves-dropping ... [more] Susan Blackmore wonders if science can explain everything ... [more] Will anything curb China's appetite for endangered species? ... [more] How hard is it going to be for health food companies to come up with honesst slogans that are scientifically supported and aren't misleading? ... [more] Environmentalism has always been the most existential of social movements, willing to shift tactics on the fly, use what works and discard what doesn’t ... [more] Is feeding kids more space and dinosaur stories an effective government science strategy? ... [more] People who live in rural areas with high unemployment rates are less likely to support environmental regulations ... [more] Should a festival devoted to science discuss matters of faith? ... [more] The campaign against homeopathy isn’t some medical establishment conspiracy, but a public movement ... [more] China's record on issues of organ harvesting and donation is pitted with deception and empty promises ... [more] If readers don't pay enough attention to understand the nuances of complex science, is there any point in attempting to report science to non-experts? ... [more] |
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