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The technology underlying Bitcoin is starting to spread its wings.
As a new David Attenborough documentary examines a remarkable fossil, a leading expert gives his verdict.
My holiday to Borneo in 2004 was more than just a chance to see incredible wildlife like orangutans and pygmy elephants. It helped crystallise for me the innate nature of scientific thinking.
Packed venues, rock star status. What makes some scientists so damned marketable?
Some animals love living in the urban jungle – but they are a small minority, compared to those we risk losing to urbanisation.
David Attenborough’s latest BBC documentary indulges wishful thinking over evidence.
There are 6,000 named dragonfly species worldwide but recently 60 new species were found showing how much more we can learn.
If it weren’t for Sir David’s enchanting work, this wildlife professor would probably be an accountant.
Sir David Attenborough has issued a call the save the Great Barrier Reef.
The life story of any animal involves daily struggles and triumphs, twists and turns – and each individual has its own unique narrative. The new Life Story series from the BBC Natural History Unit shows…
Charles Darwin famously drew upon Thomas Malthus’s treatise on human population growth to build his theory of evolution by natural selection. Malthus was worried about the rising population of the lower…
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