Animals with 'human' abilities are popping up at an alarming rate, even more frequently than fuel price rises!

Take these gorgeous meerkats for instance; while they look like they are just loafing around, they have in fact been hard at work learning from their elders.
 

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While opinion polls suggest that most people in Britain are worried about climate change, there is little sign of action on their part.  Why?

By Julia Stephenson 

One of the main reasons for this is that people feel it won't make a difference to the bigger, global picture.  With China, for example, overtaking the USA as the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, what’s the point of one person using energy-efficient light bulbs or half-filling their kettle?

A joke between female scientists led to some ground-breaking research, explains Gale Berkowitz

The discovery that women respond to stress differently than men was made in a classic 'aha' moment shared by two women scientists who were talking one day in a lab at UCLA.

A privileged upbringing, first-class education and burning ambition did not stop Clea Myers from falling foul of crystal meth.

Here she shares her story of addiction to warn others and raise awareness about how devastating this drug really is, before it hits mainstream culture in the UK.

'I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?'

The average brain is now reckoned to have forty times the processing capacity of a typical desktop computer.

Just be thankful that you don't have to lug that lot down to the airport.  But neuroscientists have now made an import breakthrough in a new mathematical model of the brain.