Roger Highfield unveils the results of Telegraph research into the science of dreams and discovers that dreams are much more likely to be shaped by events of...
"While China has stirred more concern here as a political and economic challenger, India has emerged as the country to beat in a more benign rivalry over...
A glitch in the way cells clear damaged proteins could be the trigger for the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, researchers said in a finding that could lead to...
Here is a review of a book by a man who apparently is aiming to rewrite the history of South Africa in such a way that white South Africsns are seen as just...
The long-running debate about the existence of so-called hobbits of Indonesia has taken a new turn with a study that suggests these ancient people were not an...
It's mostly rubbish. Cobbing, who started this whole trend of denying that there was an Mfecane, is a bit of a loon: I read his papers on this when they first...
That's about what I suspected. Maybe in 20 or 30 years, there won't be any white people in history at all. The history of Africa, as I read about it as a...
Blind cavefish whose eyes have withered while living in complete darkness over the course of evolutionary time can be made to see again, according to a report...
A scientist says a dramatic cold spell cut their food supply, suggesting that climate change played a bigger role than previously thought in the extinction of...
Smiling affects how we speak, to the point that listeners can actually identify the type of smile based on sound alone, according to a new study that also...
Scientists using improved methods of analyzing the chemistry of ancient soils have detected where a large marketplace stood 1,500 years ago in a Maya city on...
Scientists in China have identified about 400 genes that appear to make some people more easily addicted to drugs, opening the way for more effective therapies...
Despite more than a million years evolving in the dark, cavefish from different populations can birth sighted offspring in a single generation, scientists have...
A paper in Nature shows that herbicides can attack the parasite that causes the tropical disease toxoplasmosis. Kerri Smith explores the history of wielding...
Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing phenomenal population growth since the beginning of the XXth Century, following several centuries of population...
A fossil unearthed in China has given scientists a rare glimpse of what dinosaurs were like in the flesh. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7177181.stm...