FEATURE:  10:00 01 January 2010  | 22 comments

The promise of sex makes men open their wallets like nothing else. That makes them easy pickings for car dealers – and charities

NEWS:  10:00 31 December 2009  | 16 comments

A software package for designing synthetic life forms means you can create virtual organisms and see how they would function

FEATURE:  10:00 30 December 2009  | 12 comments

Dry Martini? Would you like that shaken, stirred, centrifuged or spherulated?

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:  12:00 27 December 2009  | 46 comments

That new phone or laptop may be giving you a warm glow, but beware a stealth attack on your happiness, warns Yair Amichai-Hamburger

FEATURE:  10:00 27 December 2009  | 24 comments

Don't rely on zero-calorie drinks to offset that festive feast. Sugar-free sweeteners might fool your taste buds, but your brain knows better

14:00 26 December 2009  | 11 comments

There was plenty to hold the attention of those with an academic interest in sexual attraction and reproduction

14:00 26 December 2009  | 10 comments

Dinosaur hunters and anyone with an interest in prehistoric creatures great and small were not disappointed

NEWS PREVIEW 2010:  12:00 25 December 2009  | 22 comments

It's more like 6000 metres under the sea than 20,000 leagues, but an ambitious series of undersea explorations in planned

FEATURE:  08:00 24 December 2009  | 74 comments

Some religious rituals are traumatic one-offs, others are soothing and repetitive - but it's best to stick to one or the other

12:36 23 December 2009  | 17 comments

Clones of an ancient bush have been discovered in California by botanists who reckon it first grew at the height of the last ice age, 13,000 years ago