Nostalgia for video games seems to be strongest for those played during childhood – at least for Nintendo Switch players ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

Pandigital sums. Set by Colin Beveridge. A pandigital sum is an addition that uses each of the digits from 0 to 9 exactly ...

Drug trials are vital to medicine, but what of those taking part? Jennie Erin Smith's moving new book about what happened in ...

Why are some people drawn towards exploration and challenge – even to the point of extreme danger? Alex Hutchinson's bracing ...

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Laid down on this operating table are the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed Yana. On 27 March, scientists ...

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A cost-cutting initiative in the world of passenger aviation could see flight-deck staff reduced to just a captain, with ...

Our hero Mickey accidentally breaks the rules when he's "reprinted", in a tired take on an old trope, finds film columnist ...

The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air ...

A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to get there, scientists have ...