Health
Possessed! The powerful aliens that lurk within you
Once they were free-living bacteria, then they hijacked complex cells, now it turns out they have a hand in everything from memory and ageing to obesity
Features
Was Aristotle the inventor of science?
Culture
Environment
A paean to plants: The story of botany at Kew gardens
Culture
Life
Three-parent babies: It’s more messy than we thought
Opinion
Life
Primal pull of a baby crying reaches across species
News
Health
Human ‘language gene’ makes mice smarter
News
Life
The go-between: Life’s unexpected messenger
Features
Environment
Fish that picks its work partners wisely
News
Earth
Fungal fix for UK’s Himalayan balsam problem
News
Environment
Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon
Hubristic humans should heed the tale of the passenger pigeon's demise, recounted by three books published on the centenary of its extinction
Culture
Environment
Swelling Australian cities harbour ever bigger spiders
News
Environment
Avast! It’s a gas-filled blob with a sting in the tail
Regulars
Humans
Brain drain: Are we evolving stupidity?
Features
Earth
Meet the lodgers: Wildlife in the great indoors
Features