Our drive for adventure and challenge has ancient origins
2 April 2025
Why are some people drawn towards exploration and challenge – even to the point of extreme danger? Alex Hutchinson's bracing new book unpicks the complex reasons
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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate
4 December 2024
Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – including humans – a supercharged ability to evolve
Richard Dawkins's latest crams gorgeous writing in an ill-fitting box
9 October 2024
A new book from the science-writing legend is an Attenborough-esque romp through some of the wonders of the natural world. Just beware the title's misfiring metaphor
Discover RNA's irresistible ascent from humble molecule to CRISPR star
31 July 2024
The amazing rise of RNA to delivering precise gene editing and its potential to unlock life's biggest secrets is told in The Catalyst by Nobel prizewinner Thomas Cech, who was a big part of the story
Seventh Son author Sebastian Faulks: 'I'm 3.7 per cent Neanderthal'
20 October 2023
Our ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club has been reading Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son, a futuristic sci-fi thriller  exploring ethics, genetics and what it is to be human.
A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic
24 January 2018
In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon lays bare what went wrong with the most promising medicine of the millennium – and greed is only part of her story
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?
How the 'Mouse Man' changed medical research
21 January 2009
A century ago – against the advice of his professor – a young student bred the animal that became the workhorse of science, the laboratory mouse
