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Comment: Indiana Jones is no bad thing for scienceFew scientific disciplines have a hero as charismatic as Indiana Jones. Despite the whip, researchers should embrace the stereotype, says Cornelius Holtorf.
Comment and Analysis 14 May 2008
Australian budget tackles environment concerns15:01 14 May 2008
Readers' Q&A: The science of sex17:45 13 May 2008
Comment: Here come the designer babies17:33 12 May 2008
Five science fiction movies that get the science right18:30 09 May 2008
Interview: Why I gave a teenager IVF17:30 09 May 2008
Death
Death comes to us all, but does it have to? Read the latest research, including how it feels to die, the plans for immortality, and more... 
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Does love define our humanity - or is it just an evolutionary device? Follow the latest, plus our Expert Guide including an Instant Expert, Pick of the Archive and more... ARTICLESPerspectives: Reinventing human identitySusan Greenfield argues that we need to think seriously about what 21st century technologies will do to the minds of future generations
Perspectives - 14 May 2008
Editorial: Digging for ancient mindsA joint endeavour by archaeologists and neuroscientists to understand how early humans gained their cognitive powers will help us to predict what lies ahead for us
Editorial - 14 May 2008
Histories: Cutting energy bills the Victorian wayMight gloomy shops and offices benefit from reviving "daylighting" technology that once challenged hazardous gaslights and newfangled and costly electric bulbs
Histories - 14 May 2008
Commentary: Josef Fritzl – a case of moral insanityThe notion of "evil" is not sufficient to describe the actions of the Austrian Austrian man who sexually enslaved his daughter for 24 years, says A C Grayling
Opinion - 14 May 2008
Interview: Caught between the loggers and the treesMonitoring the front line where logging companies vie with local people over the Amazonian forests, Mauricio Torres has come up against violence and corruption, but still has hopes for the future
Interview - 14 May 2008
Creationists unveil 'God Lab'The cat-and-mouse contest between science and creationism takes a new turn with the unveiling of a "God lab" set up to search for scientific evidence for intelligent design
News - 14 May 2008
Editorial: Burma shows the importance of farming scienceAs the world warms we can expect more severe storms and increasing stress on crops. Without more investment in farming science, Burma's plight today may be ours tomorrow
Editorial - 14 May 2008
Comment: A Green Revolution for AfricaWith prices spiralling, hundreds of millions of people don't have enough food to eat or the means to produce it. Africa's farmers need help now, says Kofi Annan
Comment and Analysis - 07 May 2008
Editorial: How to wreck a nation's scientific credibilityA series of blunders and poor decisions over UK government funding of research into physics and astronomy has badly dented the nation's reputation as a scientific partner
Editorial - 07 May 2008
Perspectives: Why humanity needs a God of creativityComplexity pioneer Stuart Kauffman on how we might think our way past the raging science vs religion war to ride out the looming global crises
Perspectives - 07 May 2008
Do we need to change the definition of science?Scientific truth isn't black and white – the frontiers of knowledge are sprouting a host of ideas that are seemingly impossible to falsify, says Robert Matthews
Features - 07 May 2008
Editorial: Child soldiers are no 'lost generation'The finding that former child soldiers are more politically engaged and economically productive than their peers who were not forced to fight is certainly a surprise. How should we react?
Editorial - 07 May 2008
Commentary: The US should dismantle its nuclear weaponsThe US media is ignoring one of the most vital issues for our future peace and prosperity, says Lawrence Krauss
Opinion - 07 May 2008
Interview: Hans Blix – the man who won't give upExclusiveHans Blix is best known as the UN's chief weapons inspector in Iraq. Now he's turning his attention to the real nuclear powers. He tells Debora MacKenzie how he's trying to convince them to make their weapons disappear too
Interview - 14 May 2008
Histories: Heroes for hard timesAfter the second world war, and inspired by superhero Dan Dare, the UK looked to science to kick-start an industrial renaissance and bring prosperity and social justice. In the vanguard was Theo Williamson, engineer of the future...
Histories - 30 April 2008
Genetic rights are enshrined in US lawThe US Senate has passed a law preventing health insurers from setting premiums or denying coverage based on the results of genetic tests
News - 30 April 2008
Editorial: Even climate models have their limitsWhile the science of climate change is robust, we may have to live with uncertainty about the local impacts of a warming planet
Editorial - 30 April 2008
Interview: The man who found Mars on EarthBy studying Earth's extreme environments, Chris McKay hopes to get a better idea of where to look for evidence of life on Mars
Interview - 30 April 2008
Commentary: Our mirror on moralityThe existence of mirror neurons proves that morality is hard-wired, says A C Grayling
Opinion - 30 April 2008
Comment: What lies beneath the makeup?We spend a fortune on cosmetics that promise to keep our skin youthful, so surely we deserve some evidence that they work, says Richard Weller
Comment and Analysis - 30 April 2008
Editorial: Still no substitute for embryonic stem cellsEven though we can now reprogramme skin cells to become versatile stem cells, it is not yet time to abandon research with human embryonic stem cells
Editorial - 30 April 2008
Interview: The complementary medicine detectiveHow Edzard Ernst, the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, became alternative therapists' public enemy number one
Interview - 26 April 2008
Comment: Let's take cancer clusters seriously this timeNew evidence linking nuclear power plants and cancer clusters caused a storm in Germany, but it has been all but ignored elsewhere, says Ian Fairlie
Comment and Analysis - 26 April 2008
Commentary: Meet the real April foolsUnfortunately, the rising energy springtime brings or the fun of April Fool's Day is no excuse for three new crusades against science, says Lawrence Krauss
Opinion - 26 April 2008
Editorial: Somebody's watching your clicksInternet service providers are sitting on a treasure-trove of data about people's browsing habits – we need a proper debate about how it should be used
Editorial - 26 April 2008
Editorial: Surgeons should face up to the evidenceThe finding that some blood transfusions may be doing more harm than good should serve as a wake-up call to the medical profession
Editorial - 26 April 2008
Review: Archimedes to Hawking by Clifford PickoverA look at the men and women behind eponymous scientific laws, from Boyle to Ohm
Bookends - 26 April 2008
Review: The Spy in the Coffee Machine by Kieron O'Hara and Nigel ShadboltTimely and balanced, this book is a scary treatise about the way technology has eroded privacy and continues to do so, says A C Grayling
Review - 26 April 2008
Review: Earth: The Sequel. The race to reinvent energy and stop global warming by Fred Krupp and Miriam HornWill the solutions to climate change offered in the latest batch of books on the topic really fix the problems, asks Fred Pearce
Review - 26 April 2008
Review: Bonk by Mary RoachIn a fun new book about sex research, the author gets down and dirty in the name of science
Review - 26 April 2008
Review: Beautiful Minds by Maddalena Bearzi and Craig StanfordThe first book to investigate the lives of apes and dolphins in parallel explains why both have big brains and what it must be like to be them
Bookends - 26 April 2008
Commentary: Medical research is still biasedResearch bias is alive and well everywhere, affecting both poor countries and less powerful groups in the rich west, says A C Grayling
Opinion - 19 April 2008
Carbon trading: dirty, sexy moneyCarbon is the hot new commodity, but can trading it like a currency really save the planet? Fred Pearce investigates a new economy
Features - 19 April 2008
Wiki lets users create the perfect US presidentThe WikiCandidate website could throw up a candidate unlike anyone who has actually run for office
Technology - 19 April 2008
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