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Flu research: How to make bird flu fly, part one
May 2nd 2012, 6:17 from Print edition
The first of two controversial research papers is published(35)
Science, religion and policy: The varieties of belief
Apr 18th 2012, 2:27 from Democracy in America
Sowing doubt in the wrong places(234)
Social status and health: Misery index
Apr 12th 2012, 3:07 from Print edition
Low social status is bad for your health. Biologists are starting to understand why(78)
Cancer and epigenetics: Cancer’s epicentre
Apr 3rd 2012, 4:18 from Print edition
New understanding of how cancers work is yielding new treatments(13)
Obesity and the brain: A high-hypothalamus diet
Mar 29th 2012, 4:12 from Babbage
Another advance in understanding how the brain affects weight(25)
The settlement of Madagascar: Thirty lost souls
Mar 22nd 2012, 4:10 from Print edition
How Africa’s largest island was colonised by Asians(13)
Searching for aliens: The wow factor
Mar 8th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
A new citizen-science project will improve the chances of finding ET(47)
Agricultural biodiversity: Banking against Doomsday
Mar 8th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Gene banks represent an overdue push to preserve crop biodiversity. It also needs conserving on farms(5)
Genes and investing: Natural stock selection
Mar 8th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
A new excuse for lousy investors(2)
DNA computing: Computing with soup
Mar 1st 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Molecular computing: DNA is sometimes called the software of life. Now it is being used to build computers that can run inside cells(4)
Microscopy: X-ray specs
Feb 23rd 2012, 5:07 from Print edition
It is now possible to photograph the insides of individual cells(6)
The nature of humanity: What’s a man?
Feb 2nd 2012, 4:03 from Print edition
Studies of brain genetics are starting to reveal what makes humans human(56)
Colony collapse disorder: Bee off
Jan 26th 2012, 4:02 from Print edition
A possible explanation of why beehives sometimes vanish(41)
Exercise and longevity: Worth all the sweat
Jan 19th 2012, 4:07 from Print edition
Just why exercise is so good for people is, at last, being understood(52)
Tuberculosis: The second coming
Jan 18th 2012, 11:40 from Babbage
A totally drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis may have emerged in India(28)
Philosophy: Free will and politics
Jan 12th 2012, 6:19 from Democracy in America
Believing in free will has political consequences that are often counterproductive(106)
Evolution: The value of a good editor
Jan 4th 2012, 6:33 from Print edition
A hitherto-unknown way to evolve(30)
Alternative uses: The play’s the thing
Dec 8th 2011, 4:17 from Print edition
What video-game technology can do in the real world(3)
Palaeontology: The hare and the tortoise
Dec 1st 2011, 4:06 from Print edition
Or, rather, the dinosaur and the crocodile(6)
The evolution of flight: In a flap
Nov 13th 2011, 10:07 from Babbage
Powered flight may not have evolved from gliding, after all(1)
What ate dinosaurs?: Old crocs
Nov 9th 2011, 6:02 from Print edition
Even in their heyday, dinosaurs were not quite as dominant as popular myth makes them out to be(69)
What dinosaurs ate: The belly of the beast
Nov 9th 2011, 6:02 from Print edition
A chance discovery from China suggests some dinosaurs lived in trees(25)
The genetics of happiness: Transporter of delight
Nov 9th 2011, 8:33 from Print edition
Happiness is in your DNA; and different races may have different propensities for it(116)
Science: Brain work
Nov 8th 2011, 5:43 from Print edition
Scientists will begin to map the wiring, or “connectome”, of the human brain(0)
Ageing: Forever young?
Nov 2nd 2011, 6:18 from Print edition
A way to counteract part of the process of growing old(124)