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Features and BackgroundThere are fatal consequences to counterfeit drugs ... [more] 
Women are an indicator species for bike-friendly cities ... [more] Forget the solar panels and the rain barrels — if you want to save energy, leave the suburbs ... [more] How do you go about finding life in extreme environments? ... [more] Rational irrationality explains why we get boom and bust ... [more] Stone tools point to South African location for origin of humankind ... [more] There's more to juggling than meets the eye and much of it is mathematical ... [more] Rock records the social behaviour of trilobites ... [more] If you want to lose weight, avoid having lunch with skinny overeaters ... [more] Economic recessions appear to be good for your health ... [more] 
Weak willpower muscle stops workers hitting gym after office ... [more] Mad genius -- looks like there really is a link between psychosis and creativity ... [more] Understanding cell suicide may help people survive heart attacks ... [more] How can science help make our reefs sustainable? ... [more] Extraordinary space missions have discovered new features of the Sun, the planets and their moons ... [more] A tornado disaster provided a push to sustainability for people who had to rebuild their town ... [more] Spotted hyena may not be smarter than chimps, but they are more cooperative ... [more] Looks like subliminal advertising might really have some effect ... [more] What have we learned since the Loma Prieta earthquake? ... [more] How can you count to a zillion without runing out of space? ... [more] The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV have plagued mammals for 100 million years ... [more] Ants give lessons to cyber security experts ... [more] Ray Kurzweil is looking forward to uploading his brain ... [more] Did comets make life left-handed? ... [more] Tracking bacterial kayakers ... [more] Alfred Russel Wallace gets his place in the sun ... [more] Flocking behavior lands on social networking sites ... [more] Monarch butterflies use a GPS antenna to find their way ... [more] High tech help for pinpointing Antarctica sea rise risks ... [more] Latest environmental preoccupation -- toilet paper ... [more] Sheep shed light on personality differences ... [more] To infinity and beyond ... [more] Secret travel story of eel migration starts to be revealed ... [more] Two sunspots could herald the end to an unexpected lull in solar activity ... [more] Losing sleep could lead to losing brain cells ... [more] A bird-eating fanged frog is among 163 new species discovered in Thailand, while Australia reveals blind pale creatures lurking underground ... [more] Here's how incoming sensory signals make themselves heard amidst the constant background rumblings of the brain ... [more] Studies provide no proof that reflexology is an effective treatment for any medical condition ... [more] Left-handed children are more likely to enjoy school and get on with their teachers ... [more] Evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked ... [more] Successful dieters may have different brains ... [more] Lights let us keep an eye on economic development from space ... [more] Dinosaur mass extinction event was muted in Europe ... [more] CIA interrogation techniques founded -- and foundered -- on faulty science ... [more] Maths could help clinicians pinpoint better ways to treat wounds ... [more] Rat results indicate that boozing it up in adolescence contributes to risky behavior in adulthood ... [more] Can a daily pill really boost your brain power? ... [more] Martian redness may not be due to water-casued rusting ... [more] Dementia cases to double in the next 20 years [more] ... [more] Cooler summer means slowdown in Arctic ice loss ... [more] You really can die of a broken heart ... [more] Outback camera network keeps an eye on crashing meteorites ... [more] Abandoned palaces and pyramids may help explain Mayan collapse ... [more] Social connectedness helps ward off illness ... [more] |
Books and MediaThe 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] 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] Do you notice the mathematical patterns in nature? ... [more] Would human beings - or the planet that they are ravaging - be better off if civilisation collapsed? ... [more] Take a look at a supernova in 3D ... [more]
How a hatred of slavery shaped Darwin’s views on human evolution ... [more] Do we now know more, or less, about the nature of the universe? ... [more] Things that HG Wells predicted -- what's come true and what hasn't? ... [more] Nearly everything we are told about the disastrous aftermath of disasters is wrong ... [more] How to get pictures of space on a shoestring ... [more] Young children still need adults around to help them learn from educational television ... [more] Should the Booker prize judges pay more attention to science fiction? ... [more] It is surely one of the particular duties of science fiction to show us things that are startlingly unlike those we already know ... [more] Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds has as much relevance today as it did when first published in 1841 ... [more] The Charles Darwin biopic Creation, like the 13.7-billion-year-old universe itself, is truly glorious ... [more] Dan Brown swaps pseudohistory for pseudoscience ... [more] Every communication advancement, from the pencil to the Internet, has been met with fear, skepticism and a longing for the medium that's been displaced ... [more] The Greatest Show on Earth reveals the enthusiasm and exasperation of Richard Dawkins ... [more] The search for consciousness has focused on where it isn't ... [more] Where will the e-reader revolution take publishing? ... [more] The new Charles Darwin biopic has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia, but can't get a distributor in the US ... [more] Science fiction has produced some of the silliest ideas for spaceflight which have persisted despite no clear method for achieving them or good justification for even trying ... [more] A look at real science heroes in an age of wonder takes the Royal Society science book prize ... [more] Here's a great model of urban ecological efficiency -- New York??? ... [more] Henry Wellcome ended up becoming one with his huge collection ... [more] What's the connection between Darwin, art and Australia? ... [more] It would be tragic if seahorses vanished from the oceans to become once more creatures of myth ... [more] An escalating fight over water in the coming years is in the making ... [more] Take a tour around a digital Karnak ... [more] There are real and fictional creations in the Robot Hall of Fame ... [more] What has Nature shown us over the years? ... [more] Californian fires showed that DIY media can outperform the mainstream press in dealing with natural disasters ... [more] A comic book approach to the stuff of life is surprisingly comprehensive ... [more] |
Analysis and OpinionSelfishness 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] 
The Enola bean biopiracy is a stark illustration of the danger of patenting life ... [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] 
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]
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] The work and influence of three engineering titans of the Victorian Age lives on ... [more] If you thought going to an international science conference as a journalist was glamorous, think again ... [more] English libel laws are hard on science journalists, and on all of us if we lose access to critical evaluation as a result ... [more] Canned food is not to be sneered at, it's an instrument of culture ... [more] How can you nudge people into doing what you want them to do? ... [more] Coping with the troubling tradeoff between depth of what we know and how fast we retrieve it may require something like peripheral intellectual vision ... [more] Bluetooth earpiece friends and foes resort to snide comments, dirty looks, feelings of superiority and accusations of techno phobia ... [more] Is it really better for the environment to be a vegetarian? ... [more] Is a global fresh water crisis looming? ... [more] What will work be like in 10 or 20 years? ... [more] Is a collection of animals a real zoo when the signs say things like bird songs "point to a musically minded Creator"? ... [more] Anybody who comes up with a new food allergy drug stands to make a boatload of money ... [more] The Midwife Toad may have been an example of a science ahead of its time, not a scientific fraud ... [more] Pushing developing countries to produce their own drugs is a triumph of hope over experience ... [more] An inventor's life is full of promise and pitfalls ... [more] If you could pick any organism to have its whole genome sequenced — what would it be and why? ... [more] How the ICBM opened, developed and closed its own frontier ... [more] If hospitals concentrated on processing patients smoothly, they could be better places to work, safer environments for patients, and cheaper to operate ... [more] Antiquated and unscientific ideas about race are alive and well in medical research in America ... [more] When the pandemic strikes, who ya gonna blame? ... [more] Is quantum mechanics messing with your memory? ... [more] Anybody who comes up with a new food allergy drug stands to make a boatload of money ... [more] Our growth engine has run out of a key fuel — basic research ... [more] As more missions and more nations get involved in space exploration, who should be governing space travel and sample return? ... [more] A herbal supplement with a botanical extract can be — and all too often is — quite variable; in some cases, it may be worthless ... [more] The jury is still out on the validity of forensic evidence ... [more] Hazard-based evaluation criteria will not make our food any safer ... [more] To ensure that biotechnology is appropriate, effective and sustainable, its intended users must be involved in its development ... [more] Would teaching the "alternative history theory" of Holocaust deniers be as acceptable as teaching the "alternative science theory" of creationism? ... [more] Worrying about peak oil is a waste of energy ... [more] Synthetic biology could give us custom-made organisms engineered to tackle the world's woes ... [more] |
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