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.
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.
The 10 best new species of the year
US college releases its annual list of the bold, the beautiful, and the just plain weird. Andrew Masterson reports.
