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Did the evolutionary process towards musical abilities begin in the primeval oceans? And have Human footsteps...

Mummified bodies from Egypt and the Canary Islands are having their digestive tracts tested and compared to living...

How reptiles turned into mammals...

In the era of fake news, what challenges do science communicators have to overcome?

In the 1940s and 1950s, more than 40,000 “lobotomies” were performed in the USA alone. Doctors essentially removed the...

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What do two separate fields of science say regarding the existence of free will?

How the Nazis were stopped from obtaining "heavy water", an ingredient key in making an atomic bomb.

An opinion piece on the scientific arguments being put forward for 'Brexit'.

Follow Rosie's time with the Naked Scientists in this weekly diary

A perspective on the recent controversy involving Tim Hunt's comments on women in science.

Death is a terrifying thought to many people: Is the best solution just to become immortal?

Academic pursuit in the search for greater knowledge has always had an uneasy relationship with business. Should...

Everyone can contribute to the work of scientists. Harriet Dickinson explains how you can get involved, and why Science...

Of all the slang names for the British, none is more iconic than 'Limey'. While the the term provokes...

The tale of antiquity's greatest mathematician, Archimedes, leaping from his bath and bustling naked through the...

It is the stuff of nightmares - a society so wound up in the legal system that no-one is allowed to tell you the truth...

Noam Chomsky, a rookie professor at MIT, published a ground-breaking book called Syntactic Structures, which set out a...

Sure, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and has received a number of other honours, but has Sir Tim Berners-Lee yet...

What can microfossils tell us about past climate? Christopher Stanton resumes his story...

Simpsons fans will know only too well the opening sequence to the cartoon in which Homer discovers, during his commute...

I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is...

When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little...

So what exactly is linguistics? Is it all about tape recorders, tongue twisters and dropped "aitches"? Or is...