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Bees get a buzz out of symmetry
News
Roll over, Descartes
Books & Arts
Mystery of the missing mammals: Why has the arid outback of central Australia lost more mammals in modern times than any other place on Earth?
Features
How to burn a wilderness: No one can imagine Australia’s great wildernesses
Features
When love is nothing but a catastrophe. . .
News
Environment
‘Designer organ’ row over baboon that died
News
The organ factory of the future?
Features
Design your own personality: Are pills that turn wallflowers into social butterflies and couch potatoes into go-getting executives just around the corner? Or is personality one of life’s great immutables?
Features
Christmas Review: Genes are us
Books & Arts
Examination hell: Britain wants its schools to be more like those of Japan – competitive, conservative and uniform. But Japan has its own problems
Features
Love me tender: Making condoms that are both sensitive and safe is big business – and getting bigger all the time
Features
Can robots come to care for us? Meeting the needs of an ever growing army of old people is pushing Japan’s technical ingenuity to the limit
Features