Evolution and society

• Face off
  

  A disease-free society helps wimps attract women (17)

• • • Fair play: It is not so much that cheats don’t prosper, but that prosperity does not cheat
    (27)
  • • Darwin and social policy: Why we are, as we are (Dec 2008)
    (44)

Electric supercars

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  Highly charged motoring

  Fast cars will go even faster with electric power (24)

• • • Ron Dennis of McLaren is driven by the pursuit of perfection
  • • Running out of juice: How to recharge all the electric cars (Jan 29th)
    (130)
  • • The electric-fuel-trade acid test: A briefing on battery-powered cars (Sep 3rd 2009)
    (72)

The science of climate change

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  The clouds of unknowing

  There are lots of uncertainties in climate science. But that does not mean it is fundamentally wrong (120)

• • • Spin, science and climate change
    (326)
  • • Cap-and-trade's last hurrah
    (27)
  • • An interview with Brian Hoskins, head of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change

CITES and the bluefin tuna

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  Eaten away

  A ban on the trade in bluefin tuna is rejected (66)

• • • Ban the trade in bluefin tuna—but set a clear path to sustainable exploitation
    (9)
  • • Not whaling but drowning
    (28)
  • • Tuna and pollock: A tale of two fisheries (Sep 10th)
    (15)

Environment and innovation

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  The green machine

  Can Angela Merkel, a scientist as well as a politician, lead Germany to the land of environmentally sound technology? - Mar 11th 2010 (1)

• • • Steven Chu, America's energy secretary: a physicist in the hot seat (Jul 2009)
    (31)
  • • The power and the glory: a survey of the future of energy (Jun 2008)
    (78)

Natural gas

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  Fracking marvellous

  A new technology called "fracking" has revealed unsuspected reserves of natural gas - and fractured the balance of power in the world’s energy markets (38)

• • • Natural gas is becoming less like oil and more like coal
    (23)
  • • Oil can be found and recovered from ever more difficult places (Mar 4th)
    (3)

Metabolic syndrome

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  A game of consequences?

  Obesity, one of the scourges of modern life, may have been profoundly misunderstood (19)

• • • Diabetes: The battle of the bulge (Feb 2008)
  • • Low-calorie sweeteners make people fat (Feb 2008)

• Also on this channel

• Alternative energy

  Smoothing out the wind

  A cunning plan to store energy underwater may help fulfil the promise of wind power (25)

• Green.view

  While stocks last

  Some ivory sales are a good idea. This one isn’t (8)

• Tech.view

  Cutting the clutter

  A wireless replacement for all those pesky power cables (28)

• Connecting to the brain

  Thinking about it

  Advances in brain-to-machine connections (3)

• Advances in pain relief

  Agony column

  Body, mind and genes all play a role in influencing the perception of pain (1)

• Analysing the web

  Blog mining

  Scouring blogs for useful information (10)

• Flexible robots

  Return of the blob

  Amoebas inspire new robot designs (1)

• Sexual selection

  Horny ladies

  If females must compete, evolution will furnish them with weapons to do so (18)

• Monitoring greenhouse gases

  Highs and lows

  You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did think that, though, you would be wrong (22)