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evolution

First land plants plunged Earth into ice age

Earth

First land plants plunged Earth into ice age

When the first simple mosses colonised the land, they unleashed vast ice sheets and triggered a mass extinction

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Lost treasures: The Maxberg Archaeopteryx

Life

Lost treasures: The Maxberg Archaeopteryx

Features

Lost treasures: Peking Man's bones

Humans

Lost treasures: Peking Man's bones

Features

Fossil DNA has clues to surviving rapid climate change

Life

Fossil DNA has clues to surviving rapid climate change

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'Panic button' could help cancer defy drugs

Life

'Panic button' could help cancer defy drugs

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World's only iridescent mammal is a shiny accident

Life

World's only iridescent mammal is a shiny accident

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One-way evolution: The ladder of life makes a comeback

Life

One-way evolution: The ladder of life makes a comeback

Features

Boas sense when prey's heart goes still

Life

Boas sense when prey's heart goes still

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First plant to use buried leaves to catch worms found

Life

First plant to use buried leaves to catch worms found

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Before DNA, before RNA: Life in the hodge-podge world

Life

Before DNA, before RNA: Life in the hodge-podge world

A simple nucleic acid called TNA can behave like a protein, suggesting the first life on Earth may have used a mix of similar chemicals

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Life

Pigeons match monkeys in abstract counting skills

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Life

2011 review: The year in life science

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Life

Smart Guide to 2012: Humans' chimeric origins

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Life

Twist in the tail of eukaryotic origins

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