While Nobel Prize announcements have always been newsworthy celebrations of discovery, recent years’ events have been ...

Areas in Sardinia, Okinawa and Greece are supposedly home to unusual numbers of centenarians. Scientists are studying them to ...

Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...

This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

It may not help us predict their behavior, but the author thinks it will help people understand physics better.

The family of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi have accused the Iranian regime of trying to bring about her ...

That old saying about death and taxes being the only certainties in life has been disproven by physicists, who have revealed ...

Economists who sign letters of support for the Democrat should be ready to present their evidence.

Today, we’re trading tricks for treats. And by treats, of course, we mean good news. Here are the feel-good stories you might ...

Activists say Iranian authorities have allowed imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to be hospitalized ...

Russia analyst and author, Stephen Dalziel, joins Georgina Godwin to talk about the week’s news and culture, including Israel ...

Han this month became the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eyewitnesses and survivors of Gwangju welcomed the accolade, hoping it would help bring a previously hidden history to ...