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Features and BackgroundIntroducing predator species to certain areas may help conservation ... [more] 
Is the next big resource issue peak phosphorous? ... [more] The latest in doggy detection -- bedbug sniffers ... [more] How can we spot planets in other solar systems and how can we tell if they have life? ... [more] Fifty years ago, space enthusiasts expected us to be on Mars by now -- so why aren't we? ... [more] Nanodiamonds could hold clues to a facet of our planet's past ... [more] Beetles cause problems for fire-fighting efforts ... [more] Military scientists used sewing needles to design poisoned darts for use on enemy troops in WWII ... [more] Men agree more than women about who is hot [more] ... [more] Map of elephant DNA reveals trail of ivory smugglers ... [more] 
What do weird animals have to teach us? ... [more] Hypnotists really are messing with your brain ... [more] A sudoku approach makes DNA sequencing faster and cheaper ... [more] A 35,000-year-old bird-bone flute is the oldest hand-crafted musical instrument yet discovered ... [more] Vatican astronomers take their work seriously, even when debating creation ... [more] Cats contribute virtually nothing in the way of sustenance or work to human endeavour, so why did we bother domesticating them? ... [more] Space Shuttle exhaust plume provides comet clue to 1908 Tunguska event ... [more] China’s manufacturing boom has brought widespread pollution and unexpected changes to the bodies, minds, and souls of the Chinese people ... [more] Mechanically, electrically, behaviorally and cosmetically, we are beholden to our ears ... [more] Mysterious space blobs are "tweenie" galaxies ... [more] More and more youngsters are altering the body parts they hate by going under the knife ... [more] The Space Station reveals a volcanic eruption punching a shockwave through the sky ... [more] Life has flowed into every last nook and cranny, living in blazing heat, freezing cold, pure acidity and atomic bomb-calibre radiation ... [more] Man's best friend could tell you when your blood sugar gets dangerouslty low ... [more] Having a biosphere could increase the length of time that planets remain habitable ... [more] Is there a genetic link between autism and anorexia? ... [more] Serial killer profiling works just as well for predators of the deep [more] ... [more] It's not easy to undertake experimental lunar drilling on Earth ... [more] Ice Age "blip" found to have lasted 30 million years ... [more] Not all frogs are dying out, as a new species shows ... [more] If you got Russian flu in the 70s, you might have a better chance against the new H1N1 strain now ... [more] Ancient granaries show that settlements were founded before agriculture, not after ... [more] Highly detailed 3D map could warn Californians of earthquake risk ... [more] When did life begin -- not just here, anywhere? ... [more] Tiny crustaceans have been producing giant-sized sperm for millions of years [more] ... [more] Do you have the right stuff to be a NASA pillownaut? ... [more] Real crop circles pinpoint huge prehistoric complex near Stonehenge ... [more] The pizza planet Io could one day break free of Jupiter and lose its volcanic splendour ... [more] Bacteria can anticipate a future event and prepare for it ... [more] Children who look and smell like their fathers get more paternal care than those who don't ... [more] A computer model of sunspots provides a better look at the Sun while researchers debate the cause of the missing sunspots ... [more] Take a swing on the world’s first mini-golf course whcih teaches astrophysics ... [more] Mammoths lived on in ancient Britain ... [more] |
Books and MediaTelevised dissection of elephant leaves you feeling towering respect for the wonder of nature, for the excitement of science and its role in explaining the world ... [more] Have we got what it takes to produce another Einstein? ... [more] There is a special section in purgatory for professors of quantum theory ... [more] Take a look at 10 species on the brink -- it may be your last chance ... [more] Should a placebo be considered a legitimate treatment option? ... [more] The Google tricycle -- coming to a pedestrian pathway near you ... [more] Scenes of ecological destruction among zoo animals are part of an art installation on the degradation of natural habitats ... [more] A vicious current has swept sailors from Japan all the way to the Americas many times over many millennia ... [more]
Take a tour through the library of dead animals ... [more] A verbal online world could open up the globe to the illiterate ... [more] Victorian Popularizers of Science is intriguing for its social history of science and its analysis of the literary efforts of the popularizers ... [more] Is there a science to spirituality? ... [more] Is a defining feature of nationhood the ability to manufacture cars? ... [more] We have been endowed, however accidentally, with self-awareness and the power to understand our own origins, and there is grandeur in that power ... [more] Evolutionary psychology -- neither evolutionary nor psychology ... [more] The physics of nuclear bomb technology is a lot simpler than the politics ... [more] Get inside lightning's strike zone ... [more] The equation of Darwinism and evolutionism is detrimental in arguing the case against creationists ... [more] The New Moon Race looks to determine what China — and other nations — are planning to do with the Moon ... [more] Science is not immune to fraud ... [more] Who or what is to blame for the gradual depersonalization of the physician-patient relationship? ... [more] Twitter can be seriously distracting, especially when the Minister of Science keeps sending you tweets ... [more] Crop circles are back in business in the UK, that's millions of pounds of business ... [more] Consider history as a series of transformations caused, enabled or influenced by food ... [more] IQ scores have steadily risen because our way of thinking has shifted ... [more] Science can help us make the best of our bodies, but it's a hard ask ... [more] What is madness, and how is a civilized liberal society to treat the mad among us? ... [more] Like a cicada, 3D programming shows up about once a decade, only to disappear and be forgotten until whenever it appears again ... [more] Photography provides a a good way to get people to pay attention to what’s at stake with endangered species ... [more] Are we facing planetary ruin or a radically transformed civilisation? ... [more] What would a seastead look like? ... [more] Risk and disappointment are built into the financial system of science, feeding a mood of adversity among university researchers and managers ... [more] A new biography chronicles the passionate exploits of one of the world’s most driven female birders ... [more] The American Institute of Architects shows off the best buildings that are human- and eco-friendly ... [more] Video games have things to teach us about learning and literacy ... [more] Almost 40 years on, there are still new things to be said about Apollo's giant leap ... [more] Take a look at seven icons of science at the Smithsonian ... [more] Online undertakers provide services to deal with electronic lives continuing after death ... [more] What sort of wild cards could change our hand in the future? ... [more] There are selfish as well as noble reasons for scientists to make the effort to communicate with the public ... [more] |
Analysis and OpinionWill a research integrity advisory board help weed out dodgy science in Australia? ... [more] Can control theory save the economy from going down the tubes? ... [more] 
The rise of supercities is the defining megatrend of the 21st century ... [more]
The death of Farrah Fawcett from cancer demonstrates the tricky relationship between cancer, hope, and the media ... [more] The new Acropolis Museum puts the Elgin marble argument in a new light ... [more] Is it stereotyping that is keeping more women from being tenured science professors? [more] ... [more] 
Have attempts to explore Mars been secretly scuppered by religious scientists keen to keep planet Earth “special”? ... [more] Environmental advocates have been able to make arguments on scientific and legal grounds, but often failed on the economics, until now ... [more] It's sad when a playwright makes being a female scientist today less attractive than being one in the 1700s ... [more] The movement to ban Bisphenol A has no scientific basis, but that hasn’t been an obstacle ... [more]
Why do many environmentalists trust science when it comes to climate change but not when it comes to genetic engineering? ... [more] Why has it taken so long to recognise ununbium? ... [more] Five ways to make consumer electronics green, or better yet, obsolete ... [more] Are biofuels the right stuff for aviation? ... [more] Engineering graduates are smart people -- so why do they annoy their bosses? ... [more] No-one wants beavers in their backyard ... [more] Bees and bacteria can teach us important lessons about our electoral system ... [more] Me and my monkey -- the confession of a reluctant vivisectionist ... [more] It can be hard to convince a patient that they don't need an expensive and unnecsssary medical test ... [more] How is it that astronomers can tell stories more wondrous than any myth of gods and nymphs, when the ink of night offers to the eye only tiny points of light? ... [more] Peak oil? Bring it on! ... [more] Would you want an organ donated by a killer? ... [more] The global spread of the H1N1 swine influenza virus shows that a useful definition for the term pandemic is far more complicated and elusive than we thought ... [more] There are limits to scientific diplomacy ... [more] The love-hate relationship with the life-sciences industry may see an end to medical miracles ... [more] Is it libellous to call chiropractic a bogus treatment? [more], [more] ... [more] Science must build on spirituality to make our environment sacred once again ... [more] As scientifically sophisticated as environmentalism’s thinking about natural systems can be, its conclusions about human involvement tend to be very reductive and causal ... [more] The US is going to have to start to fight for foreign scientific talent ... [more] If we all painted our roofs white, it could do a surprising amount to combat global warming ... [more] Bringing extinct species back to life is no longer considered science fiction, but is it a good idea? ... [more] Spare a thought for the posthumous heroes of science ... [more] Vaccines have been so successful in reducing diseases that parents and physicians dangerously underestimate the risks of not vaccinating children ... [more] Will the nuclear power renaissance ever reach critical mass? ... [more] Can you trust the media to assess the risks from chemicals correctly, or would you turn to the Internet for more accurate information? ... [more] Zoos were once full of compelling architecture, so what happened? ... [more] |
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