News Features, January 2008

• Human behaviour: Killer instincts - Premium content

  What can evolution say about why humans kill - and about why we do so less than we used to? Dan Jones reports.

  30 January 2008

• Genome studies: Genetics by numbers - Premium content

  Genomewide association studies are starting to turn up increasingly reliable disease markers. Monya Baker investigates where we are now and what comes next.

  30 January 2008

• Virology: The battle within - Premium content

  Viral and microbial interactions within living tissues are more complex than previously thought. Melinda Wenner explores whether a periodic table of the infectious could help sort out the mess.

  23 January 2008

• Defence research: Still in the lead? - Premium content

  Half a century after its creation, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is considered a paragon of government innovation. But some question whether it is still relevant. Sharon Weinberger reports.

  23 January 2008

• Experimental cosmology: Cosmos in a bottle - Premium content

  Physicists often borrow techniques from other fields. But how far can this get you? Geoff Brumfiel asks if simple table-top experiments can provide new insights into the early Universe.

  16 January 2008

• Chemistry: Power play - Premium content

  A German physicist and a hedge-fund magnate are competing to push protein simulations into the realm of the millisecond. Brendan Borrell finds out what is at stake.

  16 January 2008

• Conservation: Providential outcome - Premium content

  A winning combination of isolation, local involvement and a broad ecological remit are making the management of the seas around Colombia's San Andr�s islands a model for other conservationists, reports Mark Schrope.

  9 January 2008

• Cell biology: Bacteria's new bones - Premium content

  Long dismissed as featureless, disorganized sacks, bacteria are now revealing a multitude of elegant internal structures. Ewen Callaway investigates a new field in cell biology.

  9 January 2008

• Capacity building: The road from Rio

  Are think-tanks staffed by scientists a luxury that only rich nations can afford? Ehsan Masood meets the founders of four institutes that set out to help poorer nations to think for themselves.

  2 January 2008

• Geology: The next land rush - Premium content

  As countries race to file claims to areas of the sea floor before a United Nations deadline, geologists and geophysicists are getting caught up in the frenzy. Daniel Cressey reports.

  2 January 2008