Earlier this year Prospect science writer Philip Ball had his own “mini-brain” grown in a laboratory. Researchers now plan to put the method to different use, and in doing so learn more about an...

Northern and southern Chinese think differently—and the reason goes back centuries

A full damage limitation plan should have been drawn up months ago

The unsettling story of a (literal) thought experiment

On Twitter, false stories are 70 per cent more likely to be retweeted than true ones. Here’s why

The kind of substance that few have access to

The world is becoming a better place—despite appearances to the contrary

The suggestion that Mary Shelley sought primarily to warn of the perils of scientific meddling is insulting to a complex and ambiguous text

Improvements in IVF mean the procedure could—in theory—become the default means of human reproduction





In an Amish community in Indiana, those with one copy of the mutant SERPINE1 gene live up to seven years longer. How valuable is this finding?