For thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game.

Newly accused of data manipulation by the US, AstraZeneca has faced unprecedented scrutiny over the past six months. Embattled scientists at AstraZeneca feel they have been unfairly targeted for trying to do something that goes against the profit-dr ...

A lot of rights just vanish into the ether once you're incarcerated. Some of this makes sense. You have almost no privacy rights when being housed by the state. But rights don't disappear completely.

The grave offers a rare glimpse at the lives of high-ranking Mayan officials.

Uttarakhand’s CM Tirath Singh Rawat said that women are setting a “bad example” for society and leading to substance abuse by wearing ripped jeans.

Dragging heavy nets across seabed disturbs marine sediments, world’s largest carbon sink, scientists report

Two research groups have turned human skin cells into structures resembling an early-stage human embryo, paving the way for exciting new research avenues, and opening up some tricky ethical questions.

A boutique blend of honey from Australia becomes sought after as an aphrodisiac in the Middle East.

Nothing, it seems, can be allowed to tarnish the national myth – as I found when hosting a Cambridge debate about his murkier side, says academic Priyamvada Gopal

Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour

The real purpose of the Australian government’s News Bargaining Code is now clear: It was a bargaining chip, for News Corporation and Nine Entertainment.

The politics of a global decentralised high-speed public internet service