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Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science

Health

Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science

What begins as a feel-good human-interest documentary about the dance of nature and nurture will leave you feeling very angry indeed - and much better informed

Culture

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

Life

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

News

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

Life

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

News

Mitochondria in a cell

Humans

Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children

News

ants

Life

Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading

News

Monica Gagliano

Life

To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers

Leader

Monica Gagliano

Life

Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains

Features

37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

Life

37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

Features

Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

Video

Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

Video

collagen molecule

Life

Life may have begun with cells made wholly from simple proteins

Crude proteins made of short chains of amino acids can form life-like “protocells” that host biological processes – hinting that life began with proteins

News

Environment

Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama

Culture

Video

Venki Ramakrishnan: The giant gene-translating machine

Video

Environment

Humpback whales stop singing when cargo ships make a lot of noise

News

Life

Old honeybees make a drumming sound to get young slackers working

News