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Evolution

October 2026

  • Illustration of a lizard forming the shape of a brain with its tail

    The big idea
    Do humans really have a ‘lizard brain’ lurking beneath our rational minds?

    It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different

September 2026

  • illustration of many reading book sitting on steps that resemble a DNA strand

    The big idea
    Is culture alive?

    From Mozart to Madonna, dim sum to doughnuts, Shakespeare to Sartre – not all forms of life need DNA

August 2026

  • An ammonite at the fossil graveyard at Lyme Regis in Dorset.

    Protect fossils from hammer-wielding tourists

    Letter: Jill White responds to an editorial calling for fossils to be given legally protected national-treasure status
  • Fossil guide Martin Curtis walking away from the camera on a beach carrying a small spade and other tools

    Britain’s Jurassic gold rush: the fossil hunters chasing fortunes on Dorset’s beaches

    Social media and soaring prices are fuelling a fossil-hunting boom, with rare discoveries worth thousands of pounds
  • A man with a beard wearing a taupe-coloured jumper, with his hand behind his neck

    Secrets of the body
    The truth about blushing: why we do it, how we can resist it – and why it’s actually good for us

    Humans are the only animals whose faces redden with embarrassment. Should we see that as an affliction, or as a blessing?

July 2026

  • A fossil

    Brief letters
    When dating fossils, it helps to be precise

    Brief letters: Age-old problem | Soap as shampoo | Talking taxes | Rating Marmite | Washing-up water
  • A young man standing on a cliff holding a large piece of stone with four lines of fossilised bones that look like fingers as well as bigger bones further apart

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How one man’s near-death experience led to the discovery of the first Jurassic sea dragon in Wales

    Matthew Myerscough’s remarkable find is one of many detailed in his new book. But his journey into fossil hunting began years earlier, when he was caught in an avalanche
  • Dino Martins holding a rainbow locust by the wings

    Nature heroes
    Sex-loving hookworms and other peculiar parasites: one man’s mission to champion nature’s villains

    Award-winning entomologist Dino Martins, known for his work on pollinators, shows in his latest book that even the most gruesome creatures have vital roles to play

June 2026

  • A goat chewing grass

    Goats can find food by following a human voice, study finds

  • A still from Surviving Earth of dinosaur standing on hill looking at dark cloudy sky

    ‘Life has always managed to crawl through’: docuseries takes us back to mass extinction events

  • Fossil remains of an archaeopteryx

    Science Weekly
    The dinosaurs who survived the asteroid – podcast

    Podcast17:15
  • closeup of a gloved hand touching a mummified hand

    Scientists make sourdough bread using yeast found in 5,000-year-old mummy

May 2026

  • Bumblebee enjoying a dandelion free lunch – the plant doesn’t need its pollination services

    Country diary
    Country diary: Violence, precision and a free lunch – welcome to the weird world of pollination

    Willington, County Durham: On a fine May morning, there’s no better time to look at the stunning array of ways that bees and flowers have co-evolved to interact
  • Illustrations of a guy with eyes closed and a huge ear trumpet, and sound waves all around

    Listen and learn: the hidden secret to spotting a liar

    You may think you know when someone’s trying to deceive you, but there’s a clever trick very few people are aware of – one that has eluded AI and Traitors contestants alike
  • A reconstruction of the face of the oldest Neanderthal found in the Netherlands on display in Leiden

    Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggests

    Molar found in Siberia features deep hole that appears to show earliest known evidence of dental treatment

April 2026

  • Two labradors

    Dogs’ brains began to shrink at least 5,000 years ago, study finds

  • A collection of bird skulls resting against a black background

    Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs

  • Gently smiling woman in a leather jacket with an imaginary halo above her head

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: What would the world look like if people didn’t make mistakes?

  • A girl with red hair walks along a beach with surfboard under her arm.

    Red hair gene favoured by natural selection over last 10,000 years, study finds

March 2026

  • Illustration of dice and ladybird

    The big idea
    Down on your luck? How behavioural neuroscience could help

    The latest research suggests there’s far more to good fortune than mere accident
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