Charles Darwin and the children of the evolution

A sinister link has emerged between Charles Darwin's work and the recent spate of high-school killings by nihilistic teenagers

Increase in intellectual standing of newborns

Science has revealed that from birth we are equipped with the basic building blocks of language, mathematics and music

Crying babies imitate parents’ language

Babies pick up the first elements of their native language in the womb, scientists say in a new study

‘Barren’ mare gives birth to rare twin foals

Retired international show jumper defies the vet and odds of 10,000-1 to produce surprise pair

Melting snow shrinks Mont Blanc

The volume of snow and ice coating the summit of Mont Blanc, Western Europe's tallest mounting, has fallen by a tenth

Is the idea of carbon trading just hot air?

It's touted as a cost-effective way to cut dangerous emissions but does carbon trading practice live up to the theory?

The big picture: China’s shoots of hope

Woods are spreading over hills around Yan'an, the city where Chairman Mao lived. Here are the facts about reforestation

Outlook is hazy for emissions labels

Knowing the carbon footprint of the goods that we buy isn’t enough to turn us into greener consumers

Why genetics can't unravel the whole truth

DNA analysis can uncover a lot about an individual. Just don't expect it to reveal your roots - or your destiny

How gene therapy could repair donor lungs

Clinical trials of methods for "refurbishing" organs could hugely increase the number of lungs suitable for transplant

Actually, having a child with Down’s syndrome is no big deal

When my wife was pregnant, a scan indicated Down’s was a possibility; there was no thought in her mind of termination

Surge in Down’s pregnancies - and terminations

Number of live births remains static as improvements to antenatal tests lead more parents to opt for termination

Tissue grown to reverse genital damage

Scientists have replaced the erectile tissue of rabbits restoring sexual function and allowing them to father offspring

Older and wiser: making age count

Understanding and predicting longevity are vital if we are to manage the implications of greater life expectancy

Eureka: Life, the Universe and everything

In issue two of Eureka, Bill Bryson tries to get his head around the LHC and we delve into robot surgery and longevity

How the Nazca civilisation sealed its own fate

Scientists say that the ancient South Americans contributed to their own demise by cutting down woodland 1,500 years ago

Scottish patients harmed by poor training

Mistakes by inexperienced anaesthetists are causing harm for up to 130 patients every year in Scotland

I never gave up hope for my son Lorenzo

Gene breakthrough shows the impossible can happen, says the father whose quest to find a cure for ALD was made into a film

Why genetics can't unravel the whole truth

DNA analysis can uncover a lot about an individual. Just don't expect it to reveal your roots - or your destiny

Trust me, I'm a robotic surgeon

Robots aren’t just for assembly lines or space exploration. Get ready to meet one if you’re under the knife: the robot will be holding it

Chunk of baguette stalls Large Hadron Collider

Already delayed for a year, the £4bn collider encountered an unexpected additional problem in the form of a piece of bread

LHC: Black holes and bunkum

Nature sabotaging the LHC? Black holes devouring the planet? The CERN project has provoked some fearful reactions

LHC: a force to be reckoned with

Protons travelling at almost the speed of light are a dangerous proposition. Stopping them safely is no easy job

Back to the beginning: a history of CERN

Advisers have a right to speak plainly

Ministers must think twice before commissioning opinions they have no intention of heeding and then shooting the messenger

Cloning pioneer convicted over stem cell lies

Hwang Woo-suk, the scientist who led the world in pioneering human cloning, found guilty of faking stem cell research

Half of us back teaching of creationism

Poll finds most Britons want evolution taught in schools, but just one in five think other theories should be excluded

Scientists oppose research-with-a-purpose plan

Hundreds of leading scientists support a statement opposing the plan by higher education funding authorities to assess research on its economic...

Book a room in space - the tariff: £2.7 million

Tourists are said to be queuing up to enjoy a three-night stay in a hotel a Spanish company plans to build high above Earth

The ultimate question about the big bang

A science experiment is under way again that may teach us how the Universe began or blow up the planet!

Science: Houston has a cash problem

Despite the Ares 1-X programme, Nasa cannot cope with its rocketing costs

India claims to be birthplace of science

A new exhibition in Delhi suggests that many important discoveries were made in the subcontinent long before Greece