Science & Technology

Why is the average human body cooling down?

A decline in the average temperature of the human body could help us understand astonishing changes to our health over the generations.

The latest DNA sequencing has revealed that human history is more complex than we thought.

Why do we live in a Universe of matter with essentially no antimatter? Neutrinos may hold the answer.

On Minnette de Silva, a lost heroine of architecture.

This is the story of the evolution of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which he formulated during the First World War.

Smartphone use is a polarising issue - but can we find better ways of using technology?

Shoshana Zuboff's book clarifies a phenomenon that we may know about but not fully comprehend.

You are born 100 per cent human but die 50 per cent alien, because half the cells in your body do not belong to you.

Breakthroughs in gene therapy have been undermined by extortionate charges. But Big Pharma’s stranglehold could be ending.

A legal case is asking the Home Office to explain how its algorithm "streams" visa applicants.