18 November 2009
Climate change is transforming the Arctic so fast that many species could be gone within our lifetimes. But the important thing is to put human self-interest first, says Alun Anderson
14 November 2007
Dixie Dansercoer walked the 2000 kilometres from Siberia to Greenland to find out how much snow covers the Arctic ice
25 July 2007
Robotics researcher Hiroshi Ishiguro on how the future of robots may be networked – and how life with his android twin is getting weird
8 November 2006
Have you ever put your name into a search engine to see what the internet has to say about you?
1 November 2006
He is best known for helping to crack the secrets of DNA more than 50 years ago, but there was far more to Francis Crick than that, as Alun Anderson finds out
7 June 2006
27 April 2006
11 June 2004
Betty the New Caledonian crow achieved worldwide fame in 2002 when she fashioned a piece of wire into a tool. Alun Anderson watched her show off her skills at the lab in Oxford where she lives. He talks to Alex Kacelnik about her uncanny abilities
28 May 2004
Conrad Feather is only part way through his PhD but has already spent several years living with indigenous people in the Amazon, helping them drive loggers from their ancestral land. Recently he trained them to use GPS devices so that they could cr
23 May 2003
