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evolution

face

Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

First impressions based on the face can badly mislead us, even though that seems to make no evolutionary sense. Two books explore where we are with this puzzle

Culture

a partially excavated skull

Humans

Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor

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farm gate

Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

Culture

Did the first flower look like this?

Life

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

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Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated

Life

Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated

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Water bear

Life

Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water

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Australian black swan

Life

Mysterious mega-swan once waddled through New Zealand

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A virtual reconstruction of Rangea from CT scans

Life

See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands

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Woman walking againt the skyline with walking poles

Humans

Our brains always plan one step ahead of our bodies when we walk

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Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

Life

Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

A pair of sea-floor-dwelling eels found off the coast of West Africa have lopsided features that may help them operate as ‘sit-and-wait’ ambush predators

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Life

First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

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Humans

First Australians may have arrived much earlier than we thought

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Life

The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land

Features

Life

At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

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