History

• In brief: Linnean Society celebrates seminal evolution papers

  2 July 2008

• Online anthropology draws protest from aboriginal group

  South African tribe objects to multimedia images of remains.

  25 June 2008

• In brief: Physicist's involvement in historical race row disputed

  11 June 2008

• Translational research: Crossing the valley of death

  A chasm has opened up between biomedical researchers and the patients who need their discoveries. Declan Butler asks how the ground shifted and whether the US National Institutes of Health can bridge the gap.

  11 June 2008

• New account of Primo Levi racism row

  Fresh light shed on Jewish chemist's wartime struggle for acceptance.

  5 June 2008

• Muse: Why we should love logarithms

  The tendency of 'uneducated' people to compress the number scale for big numbers is actually an admirable way of measuring the world, says Philip Ball.

  29 May 2008

• Climate anomaly is an artefact

  Glitch in the twentieth-century climate record is explained.

  28 May 2008

• Whales are on the rise

  Humpback population shows signs of recovery.

  21 May 2008

• Language: The language barrier

  Some researchers think that the evolution of languages can be understood by treating them like genomes #20; but many linguists don't want to hear about it. Emma Marris reports.

  21 May 2008

• Social networking gets medieval

  Researchers give a French province the 'Facebook' treatment.

  19 May 2008