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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

A. N. Wilson's error-strewn and tendentious portrayal of Charles Darwin as a "Victorian mythmaker" falls into old traps and digs new ones, finds John van Wyhe

Culture

One chimp embracing another

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

News

A macaque

Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

News

baby being born healthy

Health

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Analysis

Al Gore

Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

Culture

a group of rhesus monkeys

Life

Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs

News

face

Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

Culture

face artwork

Health

Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind

Features

Refuelling hydrogen vehicle

Technology

Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand – just add water

News

farm gate

Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

Two possible visions of our future are competing for our attention: an Anthropocene desert of homogenised mongrels and a virtual supercontinent teeming with new species

Culture

Technology

The renewables reality: clean energy hasn't risen for 25 years

Insight

Life

Wild tales of stuffy sharks, intimate otters and unloved horses

Culture

Health

IVF babies tend to be lighter than others but end up heavier

News

Earth

Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

News