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?

The paper, on the “big bang” theory of the universe, offers a glimpse into the scope and ambition of Hawking’s mind from his formative years

What can evolution tell us, if anything, about human achievements in the arts? Not as much as EO Wilson thinks

Neutrinos raise questions faster than they answer them, but in science that’s a good thing

We may soon be using GWs as routinely as radio waves and X-rays are used today