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Health

Cars have evolved to go faster – but humans haven’t

Faster, safer modern cars may make higher speed limits appealing, but the human body is still stuck in the slow lane

About time: A most familiar mystery

Earth

Geology will survive creationist undermining

Environment

Anthropologist: I slept up a tree to understand chimps

Humans

Evolutionary guru: Don’t believe everything you think

Earth

Would-be geoengineers must listen to the public

Environment

Scott’s biographer: British polar hero was incompetent

History is moving at light speed

The good news about how food tweaks our genes

Pirate politician: We want open, online government

An uberconnected world need a new politics, says Ben de Biel, spokesman for the Pirates party, who are making waves in Berlin, Germany

Earth

Engineers can build a low-carbon world if we let them

Health

Obesity expert: Sugar is toxic and should be regulated

Life

Good leaders don’t have to be bad people

Health

The risk of an influenza pandemic is fact, not fiction