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Features and BackgroundThree simple family routines can reduce the risk of obesity in your kids by 40% ... [more] 
Advanced maternal age is linked to a significantly elevated risk of having a child with autism, regardless of the father's age ... [more] Male moas were a rare bird indeed ... [more] Pluto, long thought of as a dormant chunk of ice and rock, has recently undergone some of the most dramatic surface changes of any body in the solar system ... [more] Evolutionary psychology might not have the whole answer to why men and women have a different approach to jealousy ... [more] The echolocation capabilities of bats and whales evolved independently but along identical genetic paths ... [more] The Cold War divided the people of Europe for nearly half a century, and it split birds too ... [more] Humans could one day be able to run at 40 miles per hour ... [more] Having a highly math-anxious female teacher can push girls to confirm the stereotype that they are not as good as boys at math ... [more] The midlife crisis is being replaced with a graceful midlife transition as increased life expectancy and good job prospects take the sting out of ageing ... [more] 
Are we surprised to find that men feel less guilt? ... [more] Stillbirth linked directly to mother's oral bacteria ... [more] A curious, comet-like object might actually be fallout from a high-speed asteroid collision ... [more] What's the best way to set up a tent city? ... [more] Governments should prepare for the worst if aliens visit Earth because beings from outer space are likely to be just like humans ... [more] Not your average parachute jump -- a stratospheric supersonic free fall ... [more] Having cool sleeves could make athletes perform better ... [more] Brain scans could provide biological identification of post-traumatic stress disorder ... [more] Mussel-inspired sealant holds promise for repairing rips in fetal membranes ... [more] The leading cause of medical evacuation from war zones is not combat injury ... [more] Heavy pummelling by icy comets could explain the difference between Jupiter's two biggest moons ... [more] The huge quake in Haiti was a shock for the locals, but not for geologists ... [more] if you're going to suffer a medical problem on the weekend, make sure it's a traumatic one ... [more] Synchronize your bacteria's genetic clocks now ... [more] What options are there for keeping an eye on potentially dangerous objects hurtling near Earth? ... [more] The simple rules of slime mould behaviour may lead to the design of more efficient, adaptable train networks ... [more] Brain networks damaged in Parkinson's disease become abnormal a few years before symptoms appear, and make last-ditch rescue efforts ... [more] Genome sequencing provides a chance to track the transmission of drug-resistant bacteria ... [more] Congo receives help from space after volcanic eruption ... [more] Four out of five white Europeans can trace their roots to farmers who left the Near East 10,000 years ago ... [more] If your face turns red after drinking just one glass of wine, blame ancient Chinese farmers ... [more] Oh dear, Joan of Arc's relics turn out to be less than saintly ... [more] Giant space ribbon at the edge of the solar system may be a reflection ... [more] Radioactive water jugs turn out to be not so good for you ... [more] Ancient queens turn up in Alexandria and Germany ... [more] Big relief efforts have their place at times of natural disaasters, but you need help from the little people too ... [more] New genetic findings suggest that, around one million years ago, early humans came extremely close to extinction ... [more] A technique to vastly increase the donor blood cells taken from discarded umbilical cords holds promise for leukemia sufferers ... [more] Ancient currents could have allowed mammals to take a raft to Madagascar ... [more] Molecular gastronomy provides food for thought ... [more] Do we treat concussion too lightly? ... [more] It's hard enough keeping an eye on plane movement round a busy airport, let along bird movement ... [more] Homeopathic pills, being based on placebo, are not effective for suicide attempts ... [more] Did we get handy because of changes in our feet? ... [more] There's science at work in the nose of a search-and-rescue sniffer dog ... [more] Your squabbling offspring aren't being brats, they're acting as agents of socialization ... [more] |
Books and MediaSuch is the genius of H.G. Wells’s storytelling that it doesn’t take much suspension of disbelief before you do begin finding The War of the Worlds horribly credible even now ... [more] Brain scans predict video gamers' success ... [more] Just how much life can you find in an ecosystem of one cubic foot? ... [more] The Colledge for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning has come a long way in 350 years ... [more] Map of the Milky Way inspired by the London Underground ... [more] A creativity researcher cracks the pop-stardom code of American Idol and it's not all about talent or looks ... [more] Does our collective dreaming, our technolust and our romance for the stars shape the way we understand future scientific advances and change the future? ... [more] The V&A touts fakes and forgeries ... [more]
Although videogames are the world's largest entertainment industry in financial terms, they are rarely reviewed in mainstream media ... [more] What do Saturn's rings sound like? ... [more] The latest reality television talent hunt is for a terminally ill person prepared to become a mummy (an Egyptian one, that is) ... [more] Newton's account of his encounter with an apple goes online ... [more] Google Maps provides confirmation of an Australian Dreamtime meteorite strike ... [more] Anyone who has a dog knows that dogs would readily accept all sorts of weirdness, so why not quantum physics? ... [more] Like organisms, religions respond adaptively to the world ... [more] Did Tintin help create the European Space Agency? ... [more] When you turn an egg into an omelette, why can't you turn it back into egg?" ... [more] African scientists look to bridge the digital divide, but open source could just be the source of destructive new social contracts ... [more] Harvard's psychedlic head-trippers were archetypical: Timothy Leary as Trickster, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass) as Seeker, Huston Smith as Teacher and Andrew Weil, the Healer ... [more] There is a reason we have two hemispheres in the brain -- we need both versions of the world [more] ... [more] Water is not the new oil, it has simply returned to the primacy it has always held throughout history. ... [more] Martin Gardner's take on science, bogus science, mathematics, logic, literature; religions and politics - what more could you want? ... [more] A study of American optimism at its most delusional is fascinating, often very funny, and wholly convincing ... [more] What's the real-life science behind the world of Avatar? ... [more] The Greens are no longer strictly the defenders of natural systems against the incursions of civilization; now they're the defenders of civilization as well ... [more] A surgeon knows when to cut, and importantly, when not to ... [more] Simple checklists have helped major surgery complications drop 36% and deaths plunge by 47% ... [more] The Mayo Clinic joins the diet book brigade, with scientific research saying eat right, exercise more ... [more] Fossils reveal stories of life long past, and sometimes a story is unexpected ... [more] National Geographic releases its best nature photographs for 2009 ... [more] Fifteen years on, the alarmism of The Vulnerable Planet seems under-stated ... [more] |
Analysis and OpinionWhy there's no dispelling the myth that vaccines cause autism, despite the evidence and retractions ... [more] If the case for tackling climate change is backed by science, why do so many green campaigners rely on the language of religion? ... [more] 
The discovery of fragments of ancient cuneiform tablets, hidden in a British Museum storeroom since 1881, has sparked a diplomatic row between the UK and Iran ... [more]
Political ad debate turns a spotlight on human psychology and propaganda ... [more] IPCC's unfounded Himalayan glacier claims used intentionally to put political pressure on world leaders ... [more] Did you know there is an exact and precise geometric placement of Woolworths' store locations in Britain? ... [more] 
How can you encourage kids to think mathematically? ... [more] Is society served well when constitutional doctrines limit the capacity to inhibit the promotion of toxic goods? ... [more] At first glance, scientists and diplomats don’t make obvious bedfellows, but look again ... [more] There is a risk in shunning blue-skies research ... [more]
An informal telephone interview in a non-peer reviewed magazine was the basis for an IPCC statement that the Himalayas' glaciers would melt by 2035 ... [more] All parts of the body which have a function if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly ... [more] Are we acting too hastily in bulldozing bodies after a disaster? ... [more] Could other life be out there in the multiverse? ... [more] Climate scientists need to take more responsibilityabout how their work is presented to the public ... [more] In relying on who your statistics tell you is potentially high risk, those statistics could become unreliable ... [more] Testosterone may inhibit breast feeding, but a baby's overall health has more to do with a healthier pregnancy than being breastfed ... [more] What's the point in telling us about wind chill? ... [more] We should stop treating supplements like health candy and more like prescription meds, to be used only when there's a demonstrated need ... [more] Is your teenage son really going to get man boobs? ... [more] High-tech tools are no terrorism cure-all ... [more] Rather than wading into questions of genetics, why not apply an ethical analysis of legal obligations in cases of disputed reproductive contracts? ... [more] Dangerous piracy or legitimate protest -- the whaling debate heats up as a boat is broken up [more] ... [more] Epigenetics tell us that all of life is interrelated, not only by our common origins but also by our common ecology ... [more] What will happen when robots want rights? ... [more] Dolphins should be treated as non-human persons, as their intelligence merits special rights ... [more] When you clean out prairie dogs you clean out lots of other wildlife ... [more] Indigneous rights, treaty obligations and environmental issues clash over a whale hunt ... [more] Which comes first, drunk o’clock or stupid-thirty? ... [more] What and when is death? ... [more] Why should humans go to Mars? ... [more] I’m sorry I know so little; I’m sorry we all know so little. But that’s kind of the fun, isn’t it? ... [more] A ubiquitous Internet alongside 24-hour news channels have provided free, open and unfiltered access to a barrage of disinformation ... [more] Why do some religions have rituals that are so much more traumatic than others? ... [more] How green is your garment? ... [more] Who really deserves the Nobel accolades in CCD imaging? ... [more] Take an inspiring walk with Scott Russell Sanders through the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest ... [more] What do we do with the growing number of frozen embryos in storage? ... [more] What sort of advice would an agony aunt give if she was a practising evolutionary bioliogist? ... [more] After nearly a decade of delays and politics, stem cell research is about to get rolling in a major way ... [more] |
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