Did you know we’re surrounded by living fossils that date back to the age of the dinosaurs?

We are all told the same story as children: that we grew from a single cell into a human being. We learn that all of our trillions of cells developed from the first union of egg and sperm, and that we

Laura Olmsted’s life changed forever in 2018 when she took an AncestryDNA (ancestry. co.uk/dna) test for fun. “To my shock, I discovered that the man who raised me was not my biological father,” says

When James Watson died on 6th November last year at the age of 97, he was survived by a wife, two sons and a severely tarnished reputation. Watson was one of the world’s most famous scientists, having

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What doesn’t fuel us, may still be fuel! Did you know that researchers are turning food waste into sustainable plane fuel? With heat and pressure, dinner scraps can be transformed into an oil which in