20 April 2022
The campfire was a social hub for ancient humans, and a virtual reality investigation suggests that the flickering light may have made art etched on flat rocks look animated
11 April 2022
CT scans of humans, chimpanzees and macaques reveal that human collarbones slow their growth rate in the final months of pregnancy, perhaps to make it easier for babies to squeeze through the pelvis
9 March 2022
An AI tool developed by DeepMind can help historians restore ancient Greek texts with 72 per cent accuracy, and date inscriptions to within 30 years of their true age
17 February 2022
A statistical tool borrowed from ecology suggests that there were originally 40,600 copies of stories about King Arthur and other western European heroes – but only 3648 survive
18 November 2021
Questions that are just as enigmatic now as when we first asked them
14 February 2018
National Health Service data reveals that around Valentine’s Day there is a 5 per cent rise in the number of babies conceived in England
30 January 2018
Friends have more similar brain activity than people who don't know each other, particularly in regions involved in attention, emotion and language
18 December 2017
Children as young as 6 have a thirst for vengeance. From this age, kids will willingly give up prized possessions to see a mean puppet get beaten up
16 November 2017
We’re able to sense even tiny quantities of a female fruit fly pheromone, meaning one can ruin your wine no matter how quickly you remove it from your glass
