When the scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall died last week, she left behind a transformed understanding of humankind’s relationship to its closest ape cousins — chimpanzees — as well as a legacy that highlights the implications of that relationship in understanding…
Swarms of ladybirds are entering homes with zoologists saying the hot summer is to blame.
Social media users have shared witness accounts of an…
This is a tale of scholarly obsession. It involves a burning ship, a jungle-exploring Victorian naturalist, a Harvard biologist, and a rare butterfly.
Evolutionary biologist Andrew Berry is a scholar of Alfred Russel Wallace, a pioneering evolutionist overshadowed by Charles Darwin.
Over…
Keith Joyce stumbled across leucovorin last December while trying to find ways to improve the life of his four-and-a-half year old autistic grandson, Jose. He spent the next few months researching the drug and speaking to neurologists. In April, he sent his research to Jose’s developmental…
The secrets behind an incredible 4,000-year-old temple known as “one of the defining institutions of Ancient Egypt” have been uncovered by…
A British scientist is among three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into quantum mechanical tunnelling.
John Clarke,…
Police are investigating after Bronze Age gold jewellery was stolen from a popular museum in Wales.
South Wales…
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a team of scientists based in the U.S. for…
