Maverick Life

Only humans fight to the death over matters of pure ideology

By Rethabile Masilo

South Africa

Angler’s Reflection — the mighty barbel has an undeserved reputation among many fly anglers

By Ed Stoddard

Maverick Life

Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future

By Rob Brooks

Sci-Tech

Butterfly effect — the unlikely, heroic story of how Edith is surviving a world trashed by humans

By Yves Vanderhaeghen

Sci-Tech

Humans, the foolish godlings of infinite space

By Don Pinnock

World

We are creatures of coal — an evolutionary tale dripping with irony

By Ed Stoddard

World

And the AI said: Let there be Light! And there was Light...

By Steven Boykey Sidley

Magazine

The world now has 8 billion people - how evolution made it happen

By Matthew Wills

Magazine

From coelacanths to crinoids: these 9 ‘living fossils’ haven’t changed in millions of years

By Alice Clement

Magazine

Seeing colour – why my dog can’t find her red ball

By Don Pinnock

Magazine

Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human

By Love Dalén and Anders Götherström

Magazine

Mystery solved: When our mammal ancestors became warm-blooded

By Julien Benoit, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Ricardo Miguel Nóbrega Araújo and Romain David