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Speaking ahead of his BBC Reith Lecture on black holes, Stephen Hawking discusses the danger inherent in progress and the chances of disaster on Earth

Cosmologist’s tweet appears to confirm rumours of discovery that could ‘open a new window on the universe’

Study shows inflammation-reducing chemical prevents memory and behavioural problems in diseased mice, raising hopes for human treatment

It’s the job of science journalists to look beyond data – we have to look at the people doing the science and whether they have conflicts of interest

Kate Griffin, author of the Kitty Peck novels set in the criminal underworld of Victorian London, examines the nineteenth century origins of toxicology

That genetic inheritance must play some part has never been disputed. Despite occasional claims later dismissed, no-one has yet produced a single gene that controls intelligence. Now a new proposal: […]

Dutch study finds watching a frightening movie lifts level of protein factor VIII, which contributes to blood clotting

What is ‘scientific progress’? What does it mean? How is it achieved? Cleary, one avenue is improving our experiments, measuring effects more precisely and developing new experiments which shed light […]

New research hints that far from being the greedy, clumsy bird of legend, the dodo was a resilient animal whose demise was caused by an ecological disaster