Archaeology and anthropology

• Downturn hits Chicago's natural history museum - Premium content

  Staff and science cut as museum's endowments crash.

  23 December 2008

• Darwin 200: Let's make a mammoth - Premium content

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

  19 November 2008

• Modified genes spread to local maize - Premium content

  Findings reignite debate over genetically modified crops.

  12 November 2008

• Primate researchers ask the big questions - Premium content

  Scientists chart course for studies of humans' closest relatives.

  31 October 2008

• Technological innovation may have driven first human migration - Premium content

  Ancient tools give up their makers' secrets.

  30 October 2008

• No burial for 10,000-year-old bones - Premium content

  University of California denies request for repatriation of remains.

  29 October 2008

• Palaeontology: School of rock - Premium content

  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.

  15 October 2008

• Slime and fleas feature in Ig Nobel awards - Premium content

  Tongue-in-cheek prizes recognize improbable research.

  8 October 2008

• An Ig Nobel diary - Premium content

  Nature reports from the awards that celebrate the silliest science around.

  3 October 2008

• Military research: The Pentagon's culture wars - Premium content

  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.

  1 October 2008