Tests used in pregnancy only pick up half of potential chromosomal abnormalities, Italian research warns. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7427523.stm...
'The Voyage of the Beagle' shows us a young man intoxicated with the tropics and careless of the risks http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121217885836733587.html...
British researchers have unearthed evidence that proves Helen was much more than a chattel http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/01/genetics.sciencenews...
Dying the red breast feathers of barn swallows not only won the birds more mates -- it made their testosterone levels shoot up, U.S. researchers reported on...
A new wave of activists wants to celebrate atypical brain function as a positive identity, not a disability. Opponents call them dangerously deluded. ...
Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi does not bother with how the brain accomplishes a task, but rather why it performs the function in the first place. ...
Freshly cooked meals may not be an option in the wild, but an extensive taste test involving several great apes has revealed that, like humans, they seem to...
A a battle looms in Texas over science textbooks that teach evolution, and the wrestle for control seizes on three words. None of them are "creationism" or...
Perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social...
Research has shown that symmetrical human faces are more beautiful to the opposite sex, women partnered to men with symmetrical bodies have the most orgasms,...
It's the most natural thing in the world, but scientific research into what really happens when boy meets girl has long been stigmatised. So when Mary Roach...
Jean-Pierre Changeux is France's most famous neuroscientist. Though less well known in the United States, he has directed a famous laboratory at the Pasteur...
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