With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

He put a face to a God who was, before Jesus arrived, incorporeal, beyond human senses and human comprehension. In the words ...

Elon Musk has never been shy about grand comparisons, but his latest claim pushes even his own scale of ambition. He now ...

M Ravi dedicated his life to advocating for human rights, decriminalisation of homosexuality and the abolition of the death penalty.

No Christmas day has ever come without its accompaniment of sorrow,' the Herald noted in 1931, as the Great Depression gripped the nation.

Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.

Vinod’s emergence as a Hindi poet in the late 1960s was marked by a poetic language and perception that was unconventional ...

Through her creative lives as author, illustrator, painter, quilter, sculptor, and activist, Ringgold spoke to the urgency ...

The human body is a remarkably resilient thing, as many case studies of people surviving without organs tell us ...

Did humans not originate from Earth? That is a question which has always puzzled scientists. Now, a social media claim has ...