The Economist
Oil and gas extraction does not have to hurt the rainforest as much as it has.
August 28th 2008
An expensive fertiliser subsidy delivers a bumper harvest - but at what cost?
May 1st 2008 LILONGWE, MALAWI | See my photos!
Using the law to contain infections may do more harm than good
Apr 10th 2008
The Democrats in the United States take on the loggers in Peru.
Oct 4th 2007
“Abstinence only” education does not slow the spread of AIDS.
Sept 20th 2007
Biologists are learning how prions kill brain cells.
Sept 13th 2007
How brain disease might be diagnosed quickly and easily.
Aug 30th 2007
Out-of-body experiences can now be created at will. Studying them sheds light on the nature of consciousness.
Aug 23rd 2007
A group of climatologists discover reality.
Aug 16th 2007
Modelling the Earth’s climate mathematically is hard already. Now a new difficulty is emerging.
Aug 16th 2007
Exactly how mental maturity develops - and the anatomy responsible for its emergence - is being revealed.
Aug 9th 2007
More Swiss than Rwandans have a gene for unusually good emotional memory.
Aug 2nd 2007
A new species of crayfish is gaining ground - by cloning itself.
Jul 26th 2007 | With Aidan Keane
Skulls join genes in suggesting an African origin for modern man.
Jul 19th 2007
The fisheries department considers cloning leatherback turtles.
Jul 19th 2007
Children may inherit their lifespans from their fathers, not their mothers.
Jul 12th 2007
How to add new meaning to the genetic code.
Jul 5th 2007
Men with a lot of testosterone make curious economic choices.
Jul 5th 2007
A new gallery of medical curiosities opens in London.
Jul 5th 2007
No longer listed as endangered.
Jul 5th 2007
Why human psychology will make sending people to Mars hard.
Jun 28th 2007
How studying how HIV passed to humans may help combat it.
Jun 24th 2007
A woman with a twin brother has fewer children.
Jun 21st 2007
New classes of drugs that exploit the new RNAs are in development.
Jun 14th 2007
Molecular biology is undergoing its biggest shake-up in 50 years, as a hitherto little-regarded chemical called RNA acquires an unsuspected significance.
Jun 14th 2007
Rapid diagnosis helps doctors in poor countries to treat people wisely-unless the tests come up with the wrong result.
Jun 14th 2007
Studying logging roads and deforestation.
Jun 9th 2007
Some snail shells from a Moroccan cave could be humanity’s earliest known attempt at art or, possibly, a currency.
Jun 7th 2007
European laws are failing to protect sharks.
May 31st 2007
The speakers of tonal and non-tonal languages have genetic differences.
May 31st 2007
Protecting endangered species less could help save them.
May 31st 2007
One source of global warming can exacerbate another.
May 28th 2007 | See my photos!
Global warming gives our correspondent the shivers.
May 25th 2007 ALL OVER, GREENLAND| See my photos!
A town in Greenland attracts rich green globetrotters.
May 24th 2007 ILULISSAT, GREENLAND | See my photos!
An unexpected source of recovery from jet lag.
May 24th 2007
Conservationists - and polar bears - should heed the lessons of economics.
May 17th 2007
A survey of the Weddell Sea uncovers extraordinary biological diversity.
May 17th 2007
The weather in space is controlled by events at the centre of the Earth.
May 10th 2007| KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND | See my photos!
A tsunami may have struck Britain 400 years ago.
May 3rd 2007
Domestic birds are susceptible to stress - and so are their broods.
Apr 19th 2007
A brain implant bypasses the eye and creates the simplest form of vision.
Apr 16th 2007
A climate model suggests that chopping down the Earth’s trees would help fight global warming
Apr 12th 2007
A computer can now recognise classes of things as accurately as a person can
Apr 4th 2007
The latest claimant to be Odysseus’s home meets a geological survey
Apr 4th 2007
A review of two books by surgeons
Apr 4th 2007
Why the acoustics of ancient Greek theatres are so good
Mar 29th 2007
Marmosets give birth to their genetic nieces and nephews
Mar 29th 2007
Four books reflect on the most operatic field in science
Mar 29th 2007
A new big cat, or another case of species inflation?
Mar 17th 2007
Computers may soon be better than kin at predicting the wishes of the dying
Mar 15th 2007
How cowbirds run protection rackets
Mar 8th 2007
How to control a volcano. Maybe
Mar 8th 2007
An attempt to rationalise marine affairs may shift more powers to Scotland
Mar 8th 2007
How seal penises, elephant dung and smashed ivory are helping geneticists pinpoint the poaching of protected species
Mar 1st 2007
A deadly strain of tuberculosis may be more widespread than thought
Feb 22nd 2007
Working out how biological clocks operate has been a hard graft. The results, though, may boost the new technology of synthetic biology
Feb 15th 2007
If you don’t like GM food, try flowers instead
Feb 8th 2007
Good science does get done in Africa, though it tends to go unnoticed
Feb 1st 2007
Scientific research has a lot to give to Africa, and it is just starting to do so
Feb 1st 2007
How bony fish came to dominate the oceans by adapting to salt water
Jan 25th 2007
Some 7.5m lives are saved. But don’t fail now
Jan 20th 2007
Psychologists are learning more about how colour builds language and language builds colour
Jan 18th 2007
Syphilis is spreading fast in China. That raises wider concerns
Jan 13th 2007
For two thousand years men have written about ladies with small waists
Jan 11th 2007
The technology of cooling things, ignored for many years, suddenly seems important-especially for electronics.
Dec 13th 2006
A novel idea for stopping the transmission of HIV.
Dec 13th 2006
Pious travel is always a brush with mortality-but some risks can be reduced.
Dec 13th 2006
How one country’s problem could ease the world’s suffering.
Jan 4th 2007
Younger siblings increase the chance of brain cancer.
Dec 19th 2006
A sprinkling of labs around the world are trying to grow snow crystals.
Dec 19th 2006
A new map of malaria should help control the disease.
Dec 7th 2006
An artificial version of a fishy sense organ passes its first two tests.
Nov 30th 2006
The link between sperm, cancer, an unusual enzyme and the risk of making transgenic people.
Nov 23rd 2006
