Science Weekly

Nature's most intimate sexual secrets; Peter Atkins on the limits of science; plus, why chemistry often gets overlooked

It's 50 years since the first ape went into space; why the LHC isn't going to shut down for a year; Alok's first book; and Isabella Rossellini on her Green Pornos

How new technologies will boost your laptop; how Ikea makes you buy stuff you don't need; plus, new evidence questioning the out of Africa theory

From Science Online 2011, we take an extended look at the world of blogging and its role in modern science

We dial up researchers looking at climate change in Antarctica; plus, Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge Question

The benefits of Earth being hit by a meteorite; the secret world of turtles; and the effect of women's tears on men

As the LHC goes into hibernation for the winter, we visit the Atlas experiment to ask, will 2011 be the year of the Higgs?

We join the production crew for a rehearsal of one of this year's Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution

The global reaction to Nasa's arsenic bacteria research; plus, Dr Petra Boynton exposes some dating myths

Examining the climate change compromises, emission deals and fallout from WikiLeaks at COP16 in Cancún

An arsenic-loving bacterium; an augmented reality dinosaur; what your finger-length means; and should science journals be free?

Can we trust the memory of court witnesses?; a sneak preview of a new climate science exhibition; oxygen tasted on another world; and 'evidence' we can see into the future

Are giant pandas really endangered? Glastonbury goes solar, the best physics on the web, tiger droppings, plus sounds from the Large Hadron Collider

Mind-altering drugs; War as a consequence of climate change; Why some areas of science are too difficult to explain through sound alone; plus, next month's Guardian science book club

The physiology of panic, fear and arousal in cinema-goers; the evolutionary psychology of leadership; plus, robonauts and holographic communications