Asteroid wiped out all but six types of bird
All today’s species descend from a handful of ground-dwelling survivors. Tanya Loos reports.
Accelerating coral evolution
In this issue: Accelerating coral evolution – Hacking human performance – Resurrecting the thylacine – Gallery: fractals in nature – The entangled web: staging the second quantum revolution – Synthetic life
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Hawking’s posthumous, timely book
A new collection of the late physicist’s writing to appear before year’s end.
New York could get by with fewer big yellow taxis
More than one-third of big city taxi fleets are surplus to requirements, modelling shows. Andrew Masterson reports.
This week in science history: The unregarded palaeontologist is born
Mary Anning was a woman in a man’s England, her genius unrecognized in her day. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
In the embryonic human, an organiser starts its work
Long-sought mechanism for cell development has at last been found. Paul Biegler reports.
