What makes a good smell? Inside a multibillion dollar aromatic mystery
29 May 2019
Perfume prospectors travelling the world, AI researchers and neuroscientists are discovering the secrets of our least understood sense
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Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life
20 March 2019
The controversial Gaia hypothesis sees Earth as a superorganism adapted to be perfect for life. A weird type of evolution may finally show how that actually happens
Polar bears waste lots of their energy and it could be a problem
1 February 2018
We thought polar bears had neat tricks for conserving energy in lean periods, but it turns out they are not that thrifty, which could cause them trouble in the future
The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us
1 November 2017
A cellular machine so powerful that it gave rise to all of life and created our marble planet can tell us how it all began
Evolution’s rules mean life on Earth isn’t that varied after all
9 October 2017
While there are millions of species on Earth, many of them have almost identical lifestyles, suggesting nature is more regular and rule-based than we thought
First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves
19 July 2017
Wolves and dogs that are friendliest to people carry mutations in genes with links to sociability, backing the idea that this was key in dog domestication
Bacteria release aphrodisiacs that put others in mood for sex
8 June 2017
Eros protein is the first evidence that bacteria regulate mating of other, non-bacterial creatures
