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Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

Capuchins make stone flakes that could be mistaken for hominin tools, but they do so by accident in search of mineral dust they lick, perhaps as a medication

News

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Culture

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Life

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Regulars

A woman with large rolls of fat

Health

Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

News

Two whales swimming along, one of them has left a plume of faeces behind it

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

News

Women protesting for abortion rights in Poland

Health

Home abortions are safe – we should let women do it themselves

Analysis

Robert Pitman

Life

I saw humpback whales save a seal from death by killer whale

Features

A zebra

Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

Culture

A woman looking at her phone

Technology

Exploding Samsung phone shows how risky lithium batteries can be

Comment

Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz

Earth

US presidential candidates being let off hook on climate change

The world's most pressing problem is being all but ignored by moderators in the TV debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, says Matthew Nisbet

Comment

Humans

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Culture

Earth

There’s no good reason to go ahead with fracking in the UK

Analysis

Technology

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Culture

Earth

First farm to grow veg in a desert using only sun and seawater

News