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Cry

Life

The crying game: How tears can work for you

Blubbing isn’t always the sign of weakness it’s made out to be. The challenge is to work out when, how and why giving in to tears can be an advantage

Features

Brian Langerhans

Life

Why I think genitals reveal the universe’s biological diversity

Opinion

language

Life

Why Only Us: The language paradox

CultureLab

Neaderthals

Humans

Our first sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 years ago

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praying mantis

Life

Cheats and Deceits: The story of how to stay alive

CultureLab

Children shadow playground

Health

Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

Features

A fossilised flower of Strychnos electri found in amber

Earth

Beautiful amber fossil flower reveals plant history of New World

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A skull, through the eye socket of which you can see a person's left eye

Life

Our Neanderthal genes linked to risk of depression and addiction

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A nun prays at an altar

Humans

Belief in punitive gods linked with expansion of human societies

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DNA was taken from ancient human bones, like this skull, from the Dolnte Vestonice burial site in the Czech Republic

Humans

Mystery invaders conquered Europe at the end of last ice age

Ancient DNA suggests that 14,500 years ago populations that had thrived in Europe’s heartlands were replaced by mysterious new arrivals

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Life

Our future language? English rulz OK, txtspk and mind-reading

Features

Life

How humans evolved language, and who said what first

Features

Life

Meathooked: How eating meat became a global obsession

CultureLab

Life

I want to bring dying languages back from the brink

Features