The first ever global ranking of the 500 institutions that control "forest risk" commodities – and therefore have the...

Analysis of books, films and media suggests that humans tend to use more happy words than sad one...

People were asked to rate about 10,000 words on a nine-point scale from saddest to happiest. Researchers then analyse...

AmazonAccording to the blurb, Melanie's Marvellous Measles was written "to educate children on the benefits of having...

Neurobabble, a blog by four Neuroscience PhD students at Oxford University, has a post by Sana Suri about the treatme...

The blog Female Science Professor has been running a competition to write the most inappropriate, hurtful or downrigh...

This Valentine’s day, love is not just in the air – scientists are now examining how to find it online too.Two new st...

British MPs have voted to allow so-called three-parent babies to be created. Bioethicist Laurie Z...

Last week British MPs in the House of Commons voted to allow scientists to create so-called three parent babies. The ...

The UK House of Commons has voted in favour of a controversial technique that allows IVF babies to be created with bi...

We share some of our favourite images from the past year.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute The earth from Cassini On 19 July, the Cassini spacecraft glimpsed a rare s...

Could you be convinced of a crime that never happened?

Eyewitness testimony in a criminal trial assumes  that a person’s memory is reliable and accurate. But scientists now...

His life holds some lessons for ethics and science today.

Consider Humphry Davy, 19th century poet and poor boy made peer of the realm because of his extraordinary scientific ...

Overeating at Christmas is de rigueur, but what should our diet look like when we get down to tho...

ISTOCKPHOTO Christmas is the season for good cheer, family rows and lots of guilt – mainly about what you e...