Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Why did we become bipedal?
Features
This week's magazine
24 March 2012
Issue 2857
Editor's picks
Environment
Puzzles of evolution: Why aren’t we more like chimps?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of Evolution: Why was technological development so slow?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: When did language evolve?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Why did we lose our fur?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Why are our brains so big?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Are some of us hybrids?
Features
Puzzles of evolution: Why did we go global?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Did we kill off Neanderthals?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Are other hominins alive today?
Features
Space
Outback to outer space: The world’s largest telescope
Features
Health
Wake-up call: The battle to control sleep
Features
Table of contents
News
Health
Should athletes be screened for heart problems?
Fabrice Muamba's collapse has prompted calls for the UK to copy Italy's screening programme, which has cut sudden cardiac deaths in athletes by 89 per cent
News
Health
Mothers of autistic children are out of pocket
News
Health
Is ‘pink slime’ being unfairly demonised?
News
Superfast neutrino claim takes another beating
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Damage to oceans will cost $2 trillion
News
Earth
China’s monopoly on rare earths may soon be broken
News
Environment
Chimp prodigy shows signs of human-like intelligence
News
Life
Reptile grew feather-like structures before dinosaurs
News
Niger river dams could displace 1.5 million
News
Syrian uprising raises fears over chemical weapons
News
Health
Green tea could mask testosterone doping
News
Earth
Searching for the Venice of the Nile
News
What to call the particle formerly known as Higgs
News
Neutrinos send wireless message through the Earth
News
Life
First Madagascar settlers may have been Indonesian
News
Space
Hungry black holes eat two courses at once
News
Earth
Viking mice marauders swept across northern Europe
News
Physics
Have we summoned the mysterious Majorana fermion?
News
Health
Out-of-breath cops fail to recognise the perpetrator
News
Health
Universal glue for body cells targets drugs
News
Space
Astrophile: Flaring fairy lights of Saturn’s F ring
News
Life
Jilted flies drown their sorrows with alcohol
News
Technology
Mash-up aids translation of obscure languages
News
Technology
Mapping the human cost of Syria’s uprising
News
Technology
Metal detector knows how much cash is in your wallet
News
Space
New space radars track small but deadly space junk
News
Technology
Command robot planes with a wave of your arms
News
Opinion
Seeing through the fog of war
The technologies that fuelled the Arab spring are also laying bare its grim toll on human life
Opinion
Humans
A question of intelligence
Opinion
Earth
Going green won’t kill jobs during hard times
Opinion
Health
Out of Peru, the plant that tackles toothache
Opinion
Health
A tale of two classics: biology vs economics
Opinion
Features
Environment
Puzzles of evolution: Why aren’t we more like chimps?
Nobody would mistake a human for a chimpanzee, yet we share more DNA than mice and rats. Advances in genomics are starting to unravel the mystery
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Why did we become bipedal?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of Evolution: Why was technological development so slow?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: When did language evolve?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Why did we lose our fur?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Why are our brains so big?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Are some of us hybrids?
Features
Puzzles of evolution: Why did we go global?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Did we kill off Neanderthals?
Features
Humans
Puzzles of evolution: Are other hominins alive today?
Features
Space
Outback to outer space: The world’s largest telescope
Features
Health
Wake-up call: The battle to control sleep
Features
Culture
Why a soundscape is worth a thousand pictures
Bernie Krause, author of The Great Animal Orchestra, explains how audio recordings of the natural world offer an insight into intricate habitats
Culture
An insider’s view on the big bang
Culture
Humanity and the history of computing
Culture
Beware skeletons, for they mislead
Culture
Get tantric at meal times to enjoy what you eat
Culture
