8 January 2020
Mulberry, a book celebrating the marvellous tree, goes beyond its ancient links to silk production to explore its role in everything from the oldest banknotes to modern drugs
7 August 2019
A book full of fascinating facts about mosquitoes shows the powerful ways they shaped our history – and the huge toll they've taken on human life
2 January 2019
Fifty years ago, the liberalising hope of the Prague Spring was abruptly ended when the USSR invaded - and Czechoslovakia lost a generation of scientists
29 August 2018
Aboriginal stories about startlingly rapid rises in sea level describe real events at the end of the ice age, says a new book. Are we stupid to distrust oral traditions?
18 July 2018
Explore 3D printing in medical transplants, join some artistic frolics at Kew's Sussex home, and discover history's first unsolved murder case in the film story of Ötzi
11 July 2018
Archaeologists have been given a unique opportunity to peel back the layers of history lying under Amsterdam, finding more than 700,000 objects that cover centuries
10 July 2018
Two whales species absent from the Mediterranean today were common there 2,000 years ago - did Roman whalers kick-start their demise?
18 June 2018
There were domestic dogs in North America 10,200 years ago, according to a re-examination of an ancient dog skeleton that looks like a small English setter
11 June 2018
In the past decade most of the oldest baobabs, many of them sprouted over two millennia ago, have died unexpectedly and few new ones are sprouting
30 May 2018
Walter Pitts would have become one of the most famous names in computer science - if it hadn’t been for the frogs
