Â鶹´«Ã½

Features

Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

Lobsters with a lot of nerve

Some crustaceans bolt their food, leaving their stomachs to do the 'chewing'. What interests neurobiologists is the simple nervous system that drives this action

Features

Can we stop another Lockerbie?: Airlines are stretching technology to its limits in the hunt for bombs among passengers’ luggage

Features

Life

Seeing biology through Aristotle’s eyes

Features

Victims of volcanoes: Why blame an asteroid?

Features

Life

It came from outer space

Features

Eternal life for light bulbs: With at least one manufacturer promising a method of lighting that may last 50 times longer than standard bulbs, the industry is asking why people won’t pay for existing long-life products

Features

The quest for the cosmological constant: Einstein called itthe biggest blunder of his life. But modern astronomers may need thecosmological constant to save the big bang

Features

Grafting a fresh cure for asthma: Could the common ground between asthma and organ rejection lead to alternative treatments for one of the West’s most debilitating diseases?

Features

Technology

Just give me the fax

Features

Were dinosaurs born losers?

Survival is a game of luck and skill - some species make it, others don't. Extinction may always have been on the cards for dinosaurs

Features

Diggers at Dinosaur Cove: Not all dinosaurs lived in hot, lush surroundings. Archaeologists in Australia are discovering remains that challenge ideas about the way the giant reptiles lived and died

Features

Space

The constant Hubble war: A 20 year fight over the age of the universe

Features

Careers: Simulating a real career – Start planning now for a future in virtual reality

Features

Survival of the fittest technologies: CDs, disposable razorsand unleaded petrol would have made Charles Darwin smile. They have allseenoff rivals in the economic jungle

Features