Sometimes, not adapting is the best adaptation.

Artists’ intuition instead of science drive most facial reconstructions of extinct species. Some researchers hope to change that.

Professor Hugh Brady President and Vice-Chancellor University of Bristol Dear Professor Brady, We are all Jewish or of Jewish origin. We view with dismay the vicious personal, professional and political attacks directed against Professor David Mil ...

Exactly 60 years ago, on 17th January 1961, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 35-year-old Patrice Lumumba, was tortured and then assassinated by members of the Belgian Secret Service. Four months earlie ...

A new study suggests that the unequal division of household and childcare tasks within partnerships may reflect men’s and women’s actual preferences. For ...

Neandertals -- the closest ancestor to modern humans -- possessed the ability to perceive and produce human speech, according to a new study published by an international multidisciplinary team of researchers including Binghamton University anthropol ...

A small team of researchers from France, Italy and the U.S., has found evidence that suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis was not a hominin, and thus was not the earliest known human ancestor. In their paper published in Journal of Human Evolution, the ...

Videos allowing us to see for the first time how small circles of DNA adopt dance-like movements inside a cell have been developed by researchers at universities in Yorkshire.

A year of scientific uncertainty is over. Two vaccines look like they will work, and more should follow.

Demolitions used as a ‘key means’ to ‘coerce Palestinians to leave their homes’

Maher al-Akhras began his hunger strike after he was arrested and placed into administrative detention in late July.

Fine-tuning has received much attention in physics, and it states that the fundamental constants of physics are finely tuned to precise values for a r…

Russian oligarch’s firms donated £74m to Elad, who are accused of trying to seize Palestinian neighbourhoods

Haydar Ghorbani, an Iranian Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death by Iran, had his appeal

Experimentalists in the field of prebiotic chemistry strive to re-enact what may have happened when life arose from inanimate material. How often human intervention was needed to obtain a specific result in their studies is worth reporting.

An Australian telescope examined a huge patch of the sky for signs of life. It came up empty-handed.

Every day thousands of people around the world continue to become direct casualties of the Covid-19. But there’s another group slowly emerging – indirect victims who have not contracted the virus but…

Calls for sanctions are intensifying as the cabinet meets and Netanyahu awaits US approval

A crude understanding of physics sees determinism at work in the Universe. Luckily, molecular uncertainty ensures this isn’t so