Why whales and dolphins should qualify as ’non-human people’
They can understand numbers and abstract concepts and have their own distinct culture and traditions
Society
Is hockey becoming America’s game?
More kids, more rinks, and now, more popular than basketball
The quest to make meat without animals
You could see test tube burgers on a menu sooner than you think
Climate change and the food supply: it’s not going to get any easier
Corn, wheat, rice and soy tend to suffer in extreme heat
The strange and wonderful world of microbes
The Earth Microbiome Project aims to catalogue all the microbes that live on the planet
Higgs boson steals the show at AAAS meeting
Scientists promise new results on the God particle in the next few months
Day one at the AAAS conference in Vancouver
New research emerges about Stonehenge’s auditory magic and how to grow food in the desert
Vikileaks: a bad way to make a good point
Canada has learned a lot more about Vic Toews than it needed to
The Why We Broke Up Project
Daniel Handler is collecting romantic sob stories online to promote his latest book
Ian Tyson’s affair to remember
Evinia Pulos explains why, after 55 years, they are still inextricably linked