Microbes in extreme heat and cold hold lessons about life on Earth, and beyond
Microbes have the ability to survive in extremely hot and cold conditions. This makes them invaluable tools for research: they can teach us how …
New tail design
Planted music
Evolution with full stops and commas
Darwinian sapience takes a beating as the notion of 'punctuated equilibrium' - which postulates that evolution occurred in sudden fits and starts -…
Darwin's Walk and The Last Wave: Disappearing Landscapes, Declining Species
This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth.
Mortal combat
Can life be extended indefinitely? There is a renewed vigour among scientists looking for ways and means to cheat death
Adam’s luck
Men, after all, may not become extinct. Y chromosome has lost only one gene in 25 million years
True green
Lactating males
Pummelled into life
From Adam to ape
God, says the Kansas State Board of Education in the US, created the world in seven says. Evolution therefore doesn't exist. A new curriculum …
It's all in the cells
There is more than one way to become small
The munchers
Weaving a cell
A scientist, a Marxist and a dreamer
Thirty-five years ago, a renowned British biologist branded England "a criminal state" and migrated to India. Today, in the year of his birth …
Immortality is mathematically impossible, new research finds
A mathematical equation has proven that controlling one of the two major changes in a cell—decay or cancerous growth—enhances the …
Overwhelmingly WEIRD!
The edifice of Western science is built on generalisation, where homogeneity has replaced diversity
Decoding life
What shaped human intelligence?
Scientists are trying to uncover the adaptive pressures that transformed primates into intelligent humans
Mite but mighty!
The key to unravelling the mysteries of the earth could actually lie in the functioning of organisms so small that a million of them could be …
Flying high
Birds can remember. And quite well too. A new experiment sheds more light on how they do it
The wing thing
Guess what is similar to the dull wings of a fruitfly and the colourful ones of a butterfly
Science goes for a six
The US state f Kansas decides to remove the theory of evolution from school currilum
The nepotism chemical
Bacteria need a quorum, too
As any sensible invader, virulent bacteria ensure that there are enough of them before they attack