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Features and BackgroundScanning 1,200 brains could help researchers chart the organ's fine structure and better understand neurological disorders ... [more] 
A zeppelin makes a great whale-watching platform ... [more] The key to detecting unruly hens inclined to enforce the pecking order might be in observing how they run ... [more] Life could have subsided on whiffs of oxygen, before the gas went global ... [more] Zebra finches show that hepatitis B has been around a long, long time ... [more] The World Maker Faire demonstrates how even cosmic ray researchers can benefit from the innovations of do-it-yourselfers ... [more] Landslides can have their good side ... [more] Transgenic silkworms spin artificial spider silks ... [more] China is set to replumb its great rivers ... [more] Can you see the solar system for the dust? ... [more] 
Carbon dioxide in fizzy drinks sets off the same pain sensors in the nasal cavity as mustard and horseradish ... [more] Stroke patients who undergo acupuncture as part of their rehabilitation are likely wasting their time ... [more] Now we can see the inside of a hurricane via unmanned drones ... [more] Suddenly, the bedbug has competition for pest of the year, creating a stink in some parts of the US ... [more] A failed eruption in the form of a long-distance magma flow triggered thousands of earthquakes in Saudi Arabia ... [more] Looks like the Martian moon Phobos was the product of a hit-and-run ... [more] Deodorant sought for New Zealand's smelly birds ... [more] Neanderthals didn’t get dumped on prehistory’s ash heap -- it got dumped on them ... [more] Bioengineered organisms could help us settle Mars ... [more] Remnants of a magma ocean may lie deep below our feet ... [more] Small, slow and inexpensive propeller-driven planes are starting to displace fighter jets ... [more] Now, with the help of some special clocks, you can see time dilation on your tabletop [more] ... [more] Ground tension provides a pointer to where volcanic eruptions are likely to occur ... [more] Why not pave our roads with solar panels? ... [more] Another reason to prefer dogs over cats -- your kids will get more exercise ... [more] Leaning left physically may cause an individual to lean that way mentally, too ... [more] Low-phosphate detergents -- great for environment, but not so good for cleaning ... [more] Sometimes there's a double-eyed hurricane swirling around the poles on Venus, and sometimes it's much more chaotic than that ... [more] Pre-emptive incubation gives a cuckoo egg the jump on their foster-siblings ... [more] It really can be difficult to walk and talk at the same time ... [more] Human-powered ornithopter flaps its wings into the history books ... [more] What is really happening in our brains when we are experiencing events and then saving them for later? ... [more] Neanderthals were far more resourceful than we have given them credit for ... [more] Icy volcanoes can teach us about a whole bunch of geological and, possibly, climatological processes ... [more] Genetically modified salmon leads to claims of fast-growth food supply alongside cries of Frankenfish ... [more] The number of flowering species has been halved -- by weeding out duplicates, not by environmental disaster ... [more] Perhaps the global human diversity we see today is not related to genes much at all ... [more] Motorists who are too aggressive or too timid are the cause of major traffic jams ... [more] Evidence grows that exercise does next to nothing for you when it comes to losing weight ... [more] Traffic lights should respond to cars, not the other way round ... [more] Alien solar system has planets that migrated ... [more] Could the power of conversation be harnessed to power cellphones? ... [more] Arthritis supplements found to have no clinically relevant effect when it comes to helping joint pain ... [more] Is spent nuclear fuel a waste or a resource? ... [more] Stone artefacts found in the Arabian Peninsula and India point to the human exodus from Africa starting a lot earlier than thought ... [more] From stellar cannibalism comes solar system conception ... [more] Rheumatoid arthritis can be halted or even reversed if treated early, but symptoms are often ignored ... [more] Simple observation is enough to establish false memories ... [more] Beached kelp shows that whole communities of organisms can make long ocean voyages floating on organic rafts ... [more] Pre-Viking archaeology takes off as more ice thaws ... [more] New protein therapeutics aim to keep organs alive longer outside the body ... [more] Traffic engineers look to predict likelihood of car crashes in a specific area based on broad factors ... [more] Gaul legionnaires main suspects in death of girl at the Vindolanda Roman fort ... [more] Focus on the areas where tigers cluster to reproduce and you might be able to save them from poachers [more] ... [more] |
Books and MediaAn evolutionary biologist and punk rock singer explains why there are no good songs about science and how evolution can be a guide to life ... [more] Great quality lunar landing footage found in Australia ... [more] Artistic enquiries into the volcanically sublime and beautiful ... [more] Old letters give the story of the double helix's discovery a few new twists [more] ... [more] Even those who are born wild need to remember that the African bushveld is the wild animals’ domain and that we are no more than privileged visitors ... [more] Adventures on the dark side of medicine ... [more] Proofiness: the art of using bogus mathematical arguments to prove something that you know in your heart is true, even when it's not ... [more] At last a history of Egypt which combines scholarship, accessibility and a genuine sense of revelation, without the need for gratuitous mystique ... [more]
If you had to pick a section of the library to ponder over, try BL240 to BL430 (Library of Congress Classification) ... [more] Matriarchy rules at Meerkat Manor in more ways than one ... [more] How real are animal wildlife documentaries? ... [more] What happens on the savannah after sunset? ... [more] Music video subtitles lead to a literacy boom in India ... [more] Although a characteristic may have evolved for a selfish reason that does not mean it operates, psychologically, in a selfish way ... [more] What makes sporting perfection? ... [more] How will cities respond to the challenges of global warming? ... [more] There's nothing especially cerebral when it comes to scientific feuding ... [more] The Grand Tour of the solar system that Voyager undertook had its echoes in past voyages of exploration on Earth ... [more] The unsung atomic film-makers risked their lives to capture hundreds of blinding flashes, rising fireballs and mushroom clouds ... [more] Take a look at the labour of space exploration ... [more] Fast-paced action games turn us into faster and better decision-makers ... [more] There's a lot of beauty above our heads, and here's just a small glimpse of it ... [more] 9/11 memorial lights trap thousands of migrating birds ... [more] For modern China, technological development has been borrowed, copied and stolen, but it hasn't always been that way ... [more] What do you do with a 100-foot wave -- study it or surf it? ... [more] Are x-ray calendar girls really real? ... [more] The soaring popularity of popular physics books is a publishing phenomenon. ... [more] Psychological hard-wiring makes us look for personality, appearance and language in leaders, not experience or competence ... [more] Student project uses sensors to track Death Valley's mysterious roving rocks ... [more] A new book on agriculture butchers a herd of sacred cows and convinces a vegan that meat is not all bad ... [more] High school students lie amongst the Mojave dirt and cactus spines to document the behaviour and habitat needs of desert tortoises ... [more] Stephen Hawking asks where did the universe come from and why are the laws of the universe so finely tuned to allow our existence? ... [more] The Tiger is nature writing of the highest order and a meditation on perestroika gone wrong ... [more] Technology gives us a chance to take a detailed look at all sorts of things, from the wreck of the Titanic to sunspots ... [more] I see the issue of global warming as nothing but trying to entangle us and the rest of the world into one world government ... [more] It's Mars, but not as we've seen it before ... [more] A search for the UK's favourite poem about the countryside shows that the natural world and rural life still has a special claim ... [more] Fish 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] If anti-depressants are no better than placebos, but with potentially dangerous side effects, why are they still being prescribed? ... [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] |
Analysis and OpinionWill telepresence robots eventually take people's places at work, whether we like it or not? ... [more] Technology -- bah humbug -- what use is it and who would want it anyway? ... [more] 
Finding ET may be harder if aliens go digital ... [more]
Medicine is an unappreciated partner of diplomacy ... [more] Putting the science into management science ... [more] The panspermia debate continues ... [more] 
Despite its scientific importance and the mystery of its leaking ocean, there are no definite plans to return to Enceladus ... [more] If humans are to colonize other planets, we need to think about how to evolve into cyborgs ... [more] Has The Pill passed its use-by date 50 years on? ... [more] Why do voters believe obvious lies? ... [more]
Mind change, as a result of using modern technology, is one of humanity's greatest threats ... [more] Animals make us -- and made us -- human ... [more] What is our singular future going to be like? ... [more] What's it like to live with HIV your entire life? ... [more] How does one go about introducing science into comedy? ... [more] Should scientists remove seismic databases from public view to prevent panic? ... [more] A sprinkling of science helps bring understanding to the barbeque ... [more] The more efficient we make our lighting, it seems the more of it we use ... [more] Why do people stick with white vehicles when we could be, for example, a pink car nation? ... [more] Scientists behave like the Taliban when they claim God has no place in the creation of the Universe ... [more] For the past 10,000 years, it's been cultural changes, not genetic ones, that have shaped how humans have coped with their environments ... [more] For SETI success, an alien civilisation has to be targeting us with radio or optical transmissions ... [more] Debates about women in technology are like merry-go-rounds: there’s a lot of movement and excitement but you always end up back in the same place ... [more] Take that, boy racer! Electromagnetic pulse generators could save us from noise pollution and car chases ... [more] Regulating the tanning industry could offer one of the most profound cancer-prevention opportunities of our time ... [more] Does natural selection really help us understand altriusm? ... [more] If we choose the wrong food policy, there may be no going back ... [more] The fine-structure constant of the universe may not actually be constant or universal after all ... [more] Maybe 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] Ancient architecture could be the basis for a more sustainable future ... [more] Here's the story of one donor hoping to help unravel the mystery of Lou Gehrig's disease ... [more] Hunting big game to support conservation measures has backfired for African lions ... [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] Instead of concentrating on looking for alien life forms, perhaps we should be looking for alien thinking machines [more] ... [more] Anecdotes don't give you the numbers you need to make rational decisions, they just make you afraid ... [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] Thinking symbolically is the foundation of everything we do ... [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] |
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