Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of ...

We’ve been told for decades that a plastic bottle lasts 450 years, or even that plastic never goes away. But how would anyone ...

More than 30,000 years ago, people associated with one of Europe’s major Palaeolithic cultures (the Gravettian) were more interconnected than previously thought. An international research team l ...

A massive genetic study offers one of the clearest pictures yet of how DNA contributes to personality, identifying genetic ...

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In September 2018, China Daily ran a story that found its way to my desk. It featured the photograph of a beautifully preserved fossil skull with huge brow-ridges, with a caption speculating – ...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell-killing effects of chemotherapy and enter a “zombie-like state&rdquo ...