Ancient DNA from skeletons shows dramatic natural selection on skin color and height in many Europeans. By Ann Gibbons.

Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new human-like species, which could change ideas about our early relatives.

Auditors completing their annual report continue to find evidence of child labour on Ivory Coast farms supplying Nestlé. By Joe Sandler Clarke.

Cecil was one of the most thoroughly studied lions in Africa. And thanks to him, we know several reasons why the death of one big cat can be a big deal.

The author Jesse Ball discusses Lewis Carroll's ‘Jabberwocky’ and how precise prose doesn't always make for meaningful work. When I spoke to Jesse Ball, the author of A Cure for Suicide, he forged into the dense, alliterative groves of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.” Carroll’s poem famously relies on a strange, idiosyncratic language—but, Ball argues, it’s far from meaningless.