Life Who should we believe when it comes to fertility? Difficult choices over when to start a family are not made any easier by conflicting signals from doctors and fertility clinics News
Humans Hundreds of mystery human skulls sold on eBay for up to $5500 Sold.. to the highest bidder A morbid market. Staffers at the Louisiana Department of Justice in Baton Rouge tracked the sale of human skulls on eBay for seven months. During that period, 237 people listed 454 skulls for sale, with opening bids ranging from one cent to $5500. Until last week, eBay's official policy as … News
Humans Are humans still evolving? Growing evidence suggests we are Natural selection was long thought over for humans, but new work relating education and reproductive success indicates it is still at work News
Life Storks dine out on giant landfill sites instead of migrating IT MIGHT not look that appetising to us, but for white storks, this dump is like an all-you-can eat buffet. White storks traditionally make an epic annual migration from Europe to West Africa, flying thousands of kilometres to find food. But the prospect of an easy meal much closer to home is starting to replace … Regulars
Technology Internet 3.0: How we take back control from the giants Monster companies run the internet and gorge on our data. But what if we abolished the server farms and ran it ourselves? Features
Technology A field guide to technology gone feral Tech systems are so interwoven that even if we could understand their complexity, they change too fast to keep up. We have to study them like an ecology, says a new book Culture
Planet Nine may have tilted entire solar system except the sun Big bully? A jealous Planet Nine may have shoved its siblings for attention. If a massive ninth planet exists in our solar system , it might explain why the planets are out of line with the sun. The eight major planets still circle the sun in the original plane of their birth. The sun rotates …
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