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Life

The search for ET is a detective story without a body

Paul Murdin investigates the possibilities of nearby alien life in Are We Being Watched?, but neglects to cover more thrilling aspects of the quest

Books & Arts

Who knew birds looked this good under their feathers?

Books & Arts

It took more than inspiration to spawn Frankenstein

Books & Arts

Win a Kindle Fire HD in our sci-fi theme competition

Regulars

Is extinction really such a bad thing?

CultureLab

Timing was everything when Darwin's bombshell exploded

CultureLab

Time is running out for the solar revolution

CultureLab

Quantum film competition: Winning weirdness

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The man who's crashing the techno-hype party

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All work and no play: Why Neanderthals were no Picasso

Life

All work and no play: Why Neanderthals were no Picasso

Neanderthals had shorter childhoods than us, which profoundly affected their ability to make symbolic art, argues archaeologist April Nowell

Opinion

Ice-age art hints at birth of modern mind

CultureLab

Can the internet revive US democracy?

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Humans

What we really know about human courtship

CultureLab

Tour of the body hardly gets under the skin

CultureLab