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What makes a white nationalist?

6 June 2018

Race-based ideologies are gaining ground across the West. Our special report delves into the white supremacist scene in the US to ask why

The original social justice warrior who smashed stereotypes

25 April 2018

Margaret Mead’s 1920s solo trip to live among people in Samoa was just the start of a boundary-breaking and myth-demolishing career

The database that is rewriting history to predict the future

12 October 2016

A vast store of facts about the past aims to separate history from legend. It could pin down why civilisations rose and fell – and guide the evolution of our own

What happens when society crumbles and progress stops

1 June 2016

Would we be better off without economic growth? Can we survive the end of industrial civilisation? And is science itself running out of steam?

Island of wild children: Would they learn to be human?

3 June 2015

100 babies. No adults. One island. Without language, culture or tools, what would they become and how would their own children evolve?

Code generation: Kids who program before they can read

3 September 2014

A grand experiment is about to begin in English schools: computer science will join the three Rs as the fourth core subject for kids as young as 5

Old schooled: You never stop learning like a child

22 May 2013

The adult brain is far more malleable that we thought, and so learning can be child's play if you know how. By David Robson

Space tourism: the ultimate boarding pass

10 October 2012

Tourist trips into space are poised for take-off. ��˲�Ʊ prepares you for boarding

Middle age: A triumph of human evolution

7 March 2012

Far from being over the hill, people in their fifth and sixth decades are skilled, experienced super-providers – and essential to our species's success