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Morality: Do your worst, virtually
16:50 20 October 2010
Immersive virtual reality technology allows researchers to see how people respond to real and risky moral dilemmas, says Samantha Murphy
Zoologger: The slow-moving mystery of the sloth's neck
11:55 20 October 2010
Sitting quietly on a tree branch in South America, brown-throated sloths don't do much – except break a law of mammalian evolution
Morality: 'We can send religion to the scrap heap'
10:20 20 October 2010 | 19 comments
Sam Harris says that science can show us the best ways for human beings to thrive – and we can then junk religion forever
Morality: Beyond intuition
17:42 19 October 2010 | 4 comments
Some philosophers say intuitive moral responses are what count – but evidence on the nature of morality undermines this authority, says Peter Singer
Morality: Don't be afraid – science can make us better
12:13 19 October 2010 | 3 comments
We should embrace rather than fear the knowledge science brings as it unravels morality's muddles, says Fiery Cushman
Stone Age humans liked their burgers in a bun
20:00 18 October 2010
Low-carb diets are often touted as a return to our bread-free Palaeolithic past, but new evidence suggests hunter-gatherers ground grains to make flour
The chaos theory of evolution
12:30 18 October 2010
Forget finding the laws of evolution. The history of life is just one damn thing after another
Grey whales took to high seas to survive the ice ages
10:00 17 October 2010
Clues to how these ocean giants survived the last ice age may be lurking in a population of grey whales off the Canada's Pacific coast
T. rex was a cannibal
22:00 15 October 2010
Whether T. Rex were fearsome predators or cowardly scavengers is hotly disputed. Now it seems the legendary dinosaurs were cannibals
Being in love eases the pain
15:10 15 October 2010
Cupid's victims are less sensitive to pain, at least in the dizzy days of young love
Men beware: moving country could affect your libido
13:30 15 October 2010 | 3 comments
Levels of hormones that influence sexual arousal and disease susceptibility are in part determined by where men live
50 ideas to change science: Artificial life
10:17 15 October 2010
Cells, enzymes, photosynthesis – soon we'll be remaking life our own way. Not to mention making our own spare body parts, and taming flu once and for all
ANIMALS
Family values: Why wolves belong together
Wolf packs are hard-working family enterprises and assets to their ecological communities – that's why we shouldn't treat them like outlaw gangs
ASTROBIOLOGY
If there's life on Mars, it could be right-handed
Some Earth life can consume both left- and right-handed nutrients, which could complicate the hunt for extraterrestrial life