Environment
We thought we knew emperor penguins – robots are proving us wrong
For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing surprising secrets about how they live
Features
Environment
Genetic tweak to three key crops massively boosts their growth
News
Environment
The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity
Features
Life
The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate
Features
Life
New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together
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Life
Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans
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Life
Richard Dawkins’s latest crams gorgeous writing in an ill-fitting box
Culture
Society
A podcast explores how sport is drawing the line between men and women
Culture
Life
Why the underground home of the world’s weirdest wildlife is in danger
Features
Life
Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and live forever?
In this week's Future Chronicles column, which explores an imagined history of future inventions, we visit a cult in 2080s Japan that engineered a way of becoming chimeric with fungal biology. Rowan Hooper reveals their history
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Life
Single-celled predator extends its ‘neck’ with the help of origami
News
Life
Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics
Features
Life
Some scientists say insects are conscious – it doesn’t settle anything
News
Humans
The Biology of Kindness review: Living well and prospering
Culture