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Intelligent life: Why don't we consider plants to be smart?

Life

Intelligent life: Why don't we consider plants to be smart?

Plants eavesdrop on each other and communicate with other organisms via subtle messages. So why don't we recognise them as smart beings, ask two new books

CultureLab

Health

Will home-brewed drugs lead to revolution or evolution?

Leader

Physics

Getting an insight into Einstein's worlds

CultureLab

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

Physics

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

CultureLab

<i>How to Clone a Mammoth</i>: But should we?

Life

How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?

CultureLab

Last chance plan to save world's rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon

Life

Last chance plan to save world's rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon

News

Home-brew heroin: soon anyone will be able to make illegal drugs

Health

Home-brew heroin: soon anyone will be able to make illegal drugs

News

Step into this van Gogh painting recreated with virtual reality

Technology

Step into this van Gogh painting recreated with virtual reality

Regulars

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

Life

Life before death: How dying affects living minds

CultureLab

<i>Mixed Messages</i>: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

Life

Mixed Messages: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

Why privilege genes over culture when people like South America's Mbaya, who eschew sex and pass on their culture through adoption, seem to argue the opposite?

CultureLab

Life

Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

CultureLab

Life

Men (Dis)connected: Philip Zimbardo's lament on the male

CultureLab

Health

Withdrawal drug could help cannabis addicts kick the habit

News

Life

I've won a day in court for two chimps

Opinion