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Total recall: Data diaries explain who you really are

22 December 2010

New year, new diary – but how much do you really want to record about yourself? Add lifelogging hardware for endless possibilities, says Alun Anderson

Entities hidden by philosophical carpet

2 December 2009

How to sweep up with Ockham's broom, where to ski on liquid snow, and the mystery of the moon rabbit…

Melting Arctic: Forget polar bears, worry about humans

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

Interview: 100 days on thin ice

14 November 2007

Dixie Dansercoer walked the 2000 kilometres from Siberia to Greenland to find out how much snow covers the Arctic ice

Interview: The shape of android robots to come

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

The word: Egosurfing

8 November 2006

Have you ever put your name into a search engine to see what the internet has to say about you?

Review: Francis Crick: Discoverer of the genetic code, by Matt Ridley

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

Animal minds: Don't call me bird-brain

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

People of the forest

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

The big questions

23 May 2003