AAAS-2012

The morality of animals

Elephants recognize themselves, chimps feel empathy

Why whales and dolphins should qualify as ‘non-human people’

They can understand numbers and abstract concepts and have their own distinct culture and traditions

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The quest to make meat without animals

You could see test tube burgers on a menu sooner than you think

Climate change and the food supply: it’s not going to get any easier

Corn, wheat, rice and soy tend to suffer in extreme heat

The strange and wonderful world of microbes

The Earth Microbiome Project aims to catalogue all the microbes that live on the planet

Higgs boson steals the show at AAAS meeting

Scientists promise new results on the God particle in the next few months

Day one at the AAAS conference in Vancouver

New research emerges about Stonehenge’s auditory magic and how to grow food in the desert

Introducing the world’s biggest science fest

The AAAS 2012 meeting in Vancouver will feature the latest on everything scientific, from talks on birth control to discussions of fake meat grown in a lab