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

Heart and brain communicate constantly. For example, when we encounter a dangerous situation, signals from the brain make sure that the heart beats faster. When we relax the heart slows down. Interestingly, vice versa - the heartbeat also affects the ...

Blame the poisonous ideology of the Hindu nationalist BJP for the blood on India’s streets

There are some grim parallels between Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938 and Delhi today

Baruch Ben-Yosef, who was born in the United States as Andy Green, and Keith “Israel” Fuchs were named suspects immediately after Alex Odeh’s 1988 killing.

Some crowd into trucks. Others go on foot. The current Syrian migration is similar in scale to the Rohingya crisis in 2017.

Jane Goodall's comments at Davos may seem harmless, but they reflect a dangerous misreading of the climate crisis that needs to be challenged.

The UN human rights office released Wednesday a long-anticipated report which names companies with ties to Israeli West Bank settlements.

A physicist slams hype about multiverses, string theory, and quantum computers and calls for more diversity in his field

How could a U.S. citizen die in an Egyptian prison when top U.S. officials championed his cause?