THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins Bantam Press ₤20, 416 pages For many years Richard Dawkins has been engaged in a kind of war with God. Dawkins...
The WTO confirmed its partial condemnation of the European Union in a dispute with the United States, Canada and Argentina over genetically modified organisms...
Almost half of men who pay for sex already have a partner, reveals a small survey reported in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. The authors used...
Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of how to switch off genes, a potential road to new...
In 1879 a Spanish landowner named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola was searching for prehistoric artifacts on the floor of a cave on his family property in northern...
Anthropologists have almost no track record of studying Christianity, a religion they have generally treated as not exotic enough to be of interest. Now, a new...
People in the developed world today are taller and more robust than their great-great-grandparents ever imagined, and not just because of better medicine, a...
Is the 43rd President of the United States really science's worst-ever enemy? News editor ALISON MCCOOK consulted more than a dozen sources to find out. The...
According to Dutch researcher Wendy Ooteman, the biological and genetic characteristics of alcoholics can predict which drugs will best suppress the desire to...
Earth's Crazy Climate "Ancient rocks from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean suggest dramatic climate changes during the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era, a time ...
Was the "ABC" Approach (Abstinence, Being Faithful, Using Condoms) Responsible for Uganda's Decline in HIV? " ... Other researchers question whether the ABC...
Breastfed babies are smarter because their mothers are clever in the first place, not because of any advantage of breastfeeding itself, a study suggests. ...
The terms of the prize, announced by the X Prize Foundation of Santa Monica, Calif., require competitors to sequence 100 human genomes of their choice within...
Before getting into what's wrong with Malcolm Gladwell, it helps to talk about what's been right about Malcolm Gladwell. Mr. Gladwell, the nimbus-haired New...
The ultimatum game brings out conflicting impulses in human beings. In the game, a researcher offers two players a set amount of money and explains that if...
People who have mixed emotions -- feeling sad and happy at the same time -- are more creative than people who are feeling just happy, sad or have no emotions...
Studies show how the brain lets the emotions override common sense when reaching some tough decisions. Our correspondent reports on the 'ultimatum game' ...
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