To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds…
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In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put…
Snakes are familiar, distinctive – and often feared – reptiles. And they’ve been around for a long time: body fossils…
When sea ice melts, polar bears must move onto land for several months without access to food. This fasting period…
Each October, the Nobel Prizes celebrate a handful of groundbreaking scientific achievements. And while many of the awarded discoveries revolutionize…
The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio for the discovery and development of particles so…
I am serving my ninth and final year in the Nobel Committee for Physics, which is an absolutely fascinating job…
About 7,000 years ago, a small group of people sat around a fire, next to a small lake in what…
The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry isn’t the first Nobel awarded for research in nanotechnology. But it is perhaps the…
Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and Arabia between 130,000 and 70,000…