Staff and science cut as museum's endowments crash.

Evolution assumes that extinction is forever. Maybe not. Henry Nicholls asks what it would take to bring the woolly mammoth back from the dead.

Findings reignite debate over genetically modified crops.

Scientists chart course for studies of humans' closest relatives.

Ancient tools give up their makers' secrets.

University of California denies request for repatriation of remains.

Native Americans want to claim fossil resources found on their lands. Rex Dalton looks at how tribes and palaeontologists are working together to avoid bitter ownership disputes.

Tongue-in-cheek prizes recognize improbable research.

What began several years ago as an attempt to recruit social scientists to help the military has sparked a broader debate about militarizing academia. Sharon Weinberger reports.

BiaBowie|a is one of the best-preserved woodlands in Europe. But is it a good reference point for what Europe looked like 5,000 years ago? Emma Marris goes deep into the forest to find out.