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Why (some) humans are born to have a large beer belly

Do evolution and epigenetics make one person gorgeous with enviable curves while another gets an unhealthy-looking gut?

4 min read2 Sep 2021
Science

Exploring the mystery of invasion by ballooning

How do spiders float through the air? Scientists have explained this by demonstrating that spiders detect and react to electric charges around them

7 min read12 Oct 2018
Politics

‘It’s a battle for the survival of scientific research’

Darwinian theory is as fundamental to biology as Newton's laws are to physics or the structure of benzene is to organic chemistry, says Ankit Sule

6 min read18 Aug 2018
Science

Stephen Hawking to join Newton, Darwin in final resting place

Stephen Hawking is to take his place among some of the greatest scientists in history when his ashes are interred inside Westminster Abbey, close to the graves of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin

1 min read24 Mar 2018
Opinion

Watching Indian science unfold—in London

At the end of the day, the world of science can never be wedded to national boundaries

5 min read2 Feb 2018
Opinion

Darwin versus Erdogan

Turkey, once seen as a model democratic state in the Islamic world, combining Islamism and political pluralism, seems to be sliding back into medieval times

4 min read1 Aug 2017
Market

UK’s 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen mired in controversy

The UK's new 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen has created controversy, ranging from the choice of her photo, to the quote on the bill

2 min read18 Jul 2017
Mint-lounge

For the sake of science

In this special issue on travel, we hark back to that spirit, the idea of a voyage made not for leisure, but for the sake of science, and narratives that mix sense of place with a sense of discovery

3 min read15 Apr 2017
Mint-lounge

Seekers of science

The definitive reading list of journeys that were not taken just for the sake of traveland which changed the world in lasting ways

5 min read15 Apr 2017
Science

51-million-year-old genetic secret to Darwin’s theory unlocked

Researchers have identified the cluster of genes responsible for reproductive traits in the Primula flower

2 min read5 Dec 2016
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