Maverick Life

Curious kids: Why don’t humans have hair all over their bodies like other mammals?

By Maria Chikina

Our Burning Planet

The debt science owes to a brilliant Greek with insatiable curiosity

By Don Pinnock

DM168

Mosquitoes are the world’s most dangerous animals, but here’s why they shouldn’t all disappear

By Shüné Oliver

Business Maverick

An orca attack on white shark in EC waters raises fresh questions about ‘seascape of fear’

By Ed Stoddard

Maverick Life

It sounds like science fiction. But we can now sample water to find the DNA of every species living there

By Maarten De Brauwer and Oliver Berry

Maverick Life

Do racehorses even know they’re ‘racing’ each other? It’s unlikely

By Cathrynne Henshall

Maverick Life

Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how

By Jonathan Losos

Maverick Life

Ageing is complicated – a biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-ageing interventions

By Ellen Quarles

South Africa

Marikana: Mourning families and their forgotten legal rights

By Mandy De Waal

Magazine

How do drugs know where to go in the body? A pharmaceutical scientist explains why some medications are swallowed and others injected

By Tom Anchordoquy

Magazine

When human life begins is a question of politics – not biology

By Sahotra Sarkar

Magazine

The panda’s ‘thumb’ — biological wonders that navigate the odds to ensure survival

By Don Pinnock