THE CONVERSATION Birds use hidden black and white feathers to make themselves more colourful 3 min 0 By Simon Griffith
POET’S CORNER Only humans fight to the death over matters of pure ideology 5 min 0 By Rethabile Masilo
FLY-FISHING Angler’s Reflection — the mighty barbel has an undeserved reputation among many fly anglers 7 min 5 By Ed Stoddard
THE CONVERSATION Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future 4 min 3 By Rob Brooks
SPOT OF BRILLIANCE Butterfly effect — the unlikely, heroic story of how Edith is surviving a world trashed by humans 6 min 1 By Yves Vanderhaeghen
BOOK REVIEW We are creatures of coal — an evolutionary tale dripping with irony 6 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
NEW SENTIENCE OP-ED And the AI said: Let there be Light! And there was Light... 4 min 5 By Steven Boykey Sidley
THE CONVERSATION The world now has 8 billion people - how evolution made it happen 4 min 1 By Matthew Wills
THE CONVERSATION From coelacanths to crinoids: these 9 ‘living fossils’ haven’t changed in millions of years 6 min 1 By Alice Clement
THE CONVERSATION Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human 3 min 0 By Love Dalén and Anders Götherström
THE CONVERSATION Mystery solved: When our mammal ancestors became warm-blooded 4 min 2 By Julien Benoit, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Ricardo Miguel Nóbrega Araújo and Romain David
THE CONVERSATION Evolution: how Victorian sexism influenced Darwin’s theories – new research 4 min 1 By Matthew Wills
THE CONVERSATION A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar 4 min 0 By Stephen Wooding
Sci-Tech On the Origin of Species’ 150th meets a world that’s rather different 3 min 0 By Branko Brkic
