Descendants say theft from Portchester Castle reflects spirit of racism that has haunted ‘generation after generation’

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on their film interviewing Israeli military insiders on the AI-assisted systems being used to kill civilians in Gaza, and the backlash against the documentary

Scientific Reports - Evidence for funerary behaviour and lethal trauma in a new Neanderthal individual from Shanidar Cave

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal spear wound may be evidence violence shaped human life far earlier than thought.

Menopause has long been thought of as a terminal moment for the female reproductive system, when ovaries stop releasing eggs and presumably call it a day.

Effectively choosing between exploring alternative strategies versus exploiting familiar ones is a keyaspect of adaptive behavior. Previous research suggests that exploration in early life gives way t...

What happens when a forest loses its birdsong? Following clues hidden in the sounds birds make while asleep, Argentinian physicist Gabriel Mindlin uncovers a hidden extinction – not of species, but of memory – and sets out to revive vanished melodies before they disappear forever.

Rescuers moved the apes after their habitats were threatened by intense wildfires over the summer.

A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

In the Atacama desert, the extraction of lithium – so crucial to addressing the climate crisis – comes with escalating social and environmental costs

Genetic sequencing of multiple late Neanderthals living less than 52,500 years ago provides an overview of genetic diversity and demonstrates that even low-coverage nuclear genome data can increase resolution of within-Neanderthal diversity.

New research - it’s one of the largest studies of emotional intelligence to date

Press release: 9 October 2026 Breaking: Defend Our Juries to receive 2026 Quaker Truth and Integrity Award For further info: info@defendourjuries.net Credit: Defend Our Juries (Worcester 2024) Defend Our Juries has been awarded the 2026 Quaker Truth & Integrity Award, for its “courageous and persistent defence of the constitutional importance of trial by jury.” The […]

Keep track of the Moon Phases as it does it's monthly dance around the Earth

How old racial hierarchies travel through new feeds, and why they are so hard to argue with Scroll far enough through X and you will meet a familiar kind of image: a pair of faces set side by side, a ...

Microbial species disappearing from industrialized populations have evolved with humans over millennia and migrated worldwide with them—this may have consequences for human health.

A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change?