High cost of living

Shapes of life

Jumping after all these years

Calcium capers

Just better bones? No, calcium plays other, more crucial roles within our bodies

Mushrooms anyone

Discovery of a mammoth tree-killing fungus causes a stir

Survivor Bacteria

Eat less, live long

Martian visitor?

Bad blood

Fassil puzzle

What makes us tick? Just a protein

Theory of evolution under scanner

Another body blow for the myth of choice

Online Web of life

DNA and grey cells

Book>> GENES, CELLS AND BRAINS, THE PROMETHEAN PROMISES OF THE NEW BIOLOGY • by Hillary Rose and Steven Rose • Verso • Rs 1,550

Rock stars

Book>> Written in Stone, the Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth • by Brian Switek • Icon Books • Rs 5,499

The Sixth Extinction

THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE by Edward Wilson Publisher: Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press Price: $29.95

Pressure play

If stress can reactivate latent viruses in mice, it can have the same effect in humans, say American scientists

Tales in stone

Palaeontologists have found what they had been looking for: a near-perfect dinosaur fossil from the Jurassic Age. They might finally be able to …

New blood in old veins

As if by magic, scientists turn brain cells into blood: an achievement that could let cells develop their own tissues

One big family

As we peek into our past, the number of our ancestors seems to double in every generation. For every human being has two parents, four …

The adventure of evolution

Book>> Remarkable Creatures, Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B Caroll Quercus books Indian price Rs 500

Swinging both ways

Early human ‘Lucy’ walked but was good at climbing trees too

When the whales took to water

Fresh evidence supports a long-held belief that whales evolved from land mammals

Sounding it off

Froggy innovations