Half a century after Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to put down the Prague Spring rebellion, memories of the communist occupation in Eastern Europe remain raw. The inscription on a monument to Marshal Konev, a war hero in the struggle against Nazism, was recently rewritten to reflect his role in the repression of 1968, while all over the former Eastern Bloc, war memorials to Soviet troops are being defaced or torn down. Antony Kalashnikov reveals how the Soviet Union used war memorials as propaganda.

Exactly how and when life arose on our planet is a bit of a mystery – in part thanks to a lack of very ancient fossils. But now scientists have developed a new timescale for the evolution of life based on genetic data, which suggests that the common ancestor of all living things on Earth evolved much earlier than previously thought. Holly Betts explains.

The rise in knife crime in the UK is alarming, particularly in inner city areas. But considering how much anxiety the problem causes, we still know precious little about why people carry weapons. Iain Brennan’s latest research identifies some potentially useful links that could help us get to the bottom of this troubling phenomenon.

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