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King’s ‘lionheart’ gets a forensic exam
Analysis of heart of Richard I shows that Christians practised embalming.
- Mark Peplow
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Move with the times
The US National Academy of Sciences has to become more nimble and responsive if it is to survive another 150 years, says Marjory S. Blumenthal.
- Marjory S. Blumenthal
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Arts: Reinventing Galileo
Philip Ball weighs up an exuberant Royal Shakespeare Company production of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo.
- Philip Ball
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50 & 100 Years Ago
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Anthropology: Tribal warfare
Douglas William Hume assesses a first-hand account of controversial work with the Yanomami people.
- Douglas William Hume
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Physics: Rebel without a pause
Robert P. Crease delves into a life of Freeman Dyson, a theoretical physicist who chose a non-conformist path.
- Robert P. Crease
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Meteorology: On the twister trail
Chuck Doswell enjoys a history of the passionate pioneers behind tornado science.
- Chuck Doswell
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The last Medici may not have died of syphilis after all
Exhumed bones of Anna Maria Louisa de' Medici show no signs of late-stage syphilis.
- Alison Abbott
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50 & 100 Years Ago
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Theatre: The needle in Newton's eye
A play about Isaac Newton's self-experimentation illuminates scientific rivalry, finds Alla Katsnelson
- Alla Katsnelson
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Body of evidence
The identification of a long-dead king is not simply an academic event.
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50 & 100 Years Ago
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Scientific genius is extinct
Dean Keith Simonton fears that surprising originality in the natural sciences is a thing of the past, as vast teams finesse knowledge rather than create disciplines.
- Dean Keith Simonton
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History of science: Elements of romance
Mark Peplow explores chemistry's golden age — and its brushes with Romanticism — at London's Royal Society.
- Mark Peplow
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History: Creator — or creationist?
Kevin Padian weighs up a life of a great science popularizer who resisted Darwinism.
- Kevin Padian
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Letters of Alfred Russel Wallace go online
Near-complete archive allows overlooked naturalist to emerge from Darwin’s shadow.
- James Poskett
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Anthropology: Power of the past
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder assesses an exploration of how modern industrial and traditional societies differ.
- Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
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History: Frozen assets
Edmund Stump welcomes a history of Antarctica that covers the glory, the rivalries and the scientific legacy.
- Edmund Stump
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Books in brief
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Cetology: How science inspired Moby-Dick
Philip Hoare tracks the scientific influences and insights that breach throughout Herman Melville's epic novel.
- Philip Hoare
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50 & 100 Years Ago
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Science today, history tomorrow
We must preserve the interactions of contemporary researchers for future scholars, urges Georgina Ferry.
- Georgina Ferry
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50 & 100 Years Ago
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Self-censorship is not enough
The debate over publishing potentially dangerous research on flu viruses would benefit from a closer look at history, argue David Kaiser and Jonathan D. Moreno.
- David Kaiser
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Natural history: Diamonds in the rough
Ewen Callaway delights in a cherry-picked selection of the London Natural History Museum's gargantuan trove.
- Ewen Callaway
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Books in brief
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Science communication: Science fresh from the box
Eugenie Scott relishes a history of science programming on US television that reveals an often intrusive emphasis on thrills and chills.
- Eugenie Scott
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Lego Antikythera Mechanism
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50 & 100 Years Ago
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X-Ray crystallography: Symmetry wars
Philip Ball is gripped by the life of a remarkable scientist whose flawed theory dented her reputation.
- Philip Ball
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Mathematics: Poet of the infinite
George Szpiro celebrates a biography of the multifaceted mathematician, physicist and philosopher Henri Poincaré.
- George Szpiro
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Thanatology: Beyond the grave
Death's multifarious faces in two London exhibitions exhilarate Ewen Callaway.
- Ewen Callaway
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Engineering: Turbulent genius
Allan McRobie enjoys a life of the audacious engineer who pioneered the windproofing of bridges and skyscrapers.
- Allan McRobie
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History: Dreaming of the bomb
Istvan Hargittai explores a life and work of Manhattan Project leader, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- Istvan Hargittai
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Real skin shedding meets mythology
- Andrew C. Walls
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50 & 100 Years Ago
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Philosophy: Creative resilience
Michael Shermer sifts through a study of the science of randomness and our responses to it.
- Michael Shermer
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In Retrospect: The Origin of Life
Clifford P. Brangwynne and Anthony A. Hyman celebrate the first book to plausibly suggest how life began.
- Tony Hyman
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Snapshots explore Einstein’s unusual brain
Photos reveal unique features of genius’s cerebral cortex.
- Mo Costandi