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Tosin Thompson writes about science and was the New Statesman's 2015 Wellcome Trust Scholar.
When and where are we most likely to find extraterrestrial life?
Science teacher and writer Andrew Morris explores how adults who struggled with the strictures of the school curriculum can reconnect with science.
In homage to the 60th anniversary of the world’s first atomic clock, it's time to ask what time actually is and whether it even exists.
A new report – published ahead of the one-year anniversary of the UK's first Girl Summit – shows that no local authority area in England and Wales is free from female genital mutilation.
Resarchers working in China have found a new dinosaur with one of the most complex, well-preserved pair of wings ever seen – too bad it probably couldn't fly.
Artificial intelligence researchers are trying to make machines tell jokes. It's not going very well.
Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft will be returning to humanity the first ever close-up images and scientific observations of Pluto and its moons.
What are the scientifically proven ways to be happier?
The universe is a very sticky place, but how sticky is it? Could it favour the “Big Rip” demise of the universe?
We read between the lines of newspapers' scare stories about infertility and "late" pregnancy to find the science doesn't back them up at all.
