Enrico de Lazaro, SciNews In a new paper published this month in the journal iScience, researchers from the University of Tübingen and elsewhere present a multidisciplinary analysis of...

Zeeya Merali, Templeton Ideas A long time ago (in 1977), in a galaxy far, far away (at your local theater)…a young farmworker, Luke Skywalker, destroyed a planet-exploding super...

Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution Is True For a long time I've maintained that Neanderthals, which most anthropologists seem to think are a species different from Homo sapiens, in fact...

Jon Hamilton, NPR Research on conditions like autism, schizophrenia and even brain cancer increasingly relies on clusters of human cells called brain organoids. These pea-size bits of...

Michelle Starr, Science Alert The fearsome silent hunters of the deep - sharks - aren't...

Ian Sample, The Guardian In the murky first chapters of the human story is an unknown ancestor that made the profound transition from walking on all fours to standing up tall, an act that...

Hatty Willmoth, Science Focus January feels like the perfect month to give up alcohol - and not only because 'Dry January' has become...

Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily In the 1880s, dry plate photographs of the Pleiades star cluster revealed a previously undiscovered nebula. It was an important moment for astronomers, who were...

Tibi Puiu, ZME Science How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast cells tip the scales at about 100...

Frank Landymore, Futurism In a new interview with The Financial Times,...