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The physicist Gabriela González is on the cusp of finding the first direct evidence of gravitational waves — soundlike wobbles in space-time produced by black holes and their kin.

When an international team of researchers CT-scanned a 100-million-year-old sea urchin fossil (Clypeaster), they made a surprising discovery. It was choc-a-block with around 50 fossilised bivalves (a class of molluscs).

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) scientists feel more accepted in the workplace than their peers in other professions, a US survey suggests. The study, published in the Journal of […]

The prevailing theory is that the first Americans arrived in a single wave, and all Native American populations today descend from this one group of adventurous founders. But now there’s […]

You could say that the silence has been deafening. Since its beginnings more than half a century ago, the dedicated search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has failed to detect the […]

Are our sexual desires derived from our genes? Or can we make active choices about who we are sexually attracted to?

Don’t sound the death knell for free will just yet. Despite tantalizing evidence that our brains are doing much more than we’re aware of, free will may still exist. It […]

Chimpanzees have the cognitive ability to cook, according to new research, if only someone would give them ovens.

Public-health officials make plans for how to speed up responses to tropical-disease outbreaks.