Another world-first find on South Africa’s Cape south coast
Snakes are familiar, distinctive – and often feared – reptiles. And they’ve been around for…
Polar bears may struggle to produce milk for their cubs as climate change melts sea ice
When sea ice melts, polar bears must move onto land for several months without access…
How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize 80 years ago
Each October, the Nobel Prizes celebrate a handful of groundbreaking scientific achievements. And while many…
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for ‘quantum dot’ technology that gave us today’s high definition TVs
The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio for the discovery…
I helped select the Nobel laureates in physics – here’s how our committee decides
I am serving my ninth and final year in the Nobel Committee for Physics, which…
Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment
About 7,000 years ago, a small group of people sat around a fire, next to…
Quantum dots are part of a revolution in engineering atoms in useful ways – Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the power of nanotechnology
The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry isn’t the first Nobel awarded for research in nanotechnology.…
New path for early human migrations through a once-lush Arabia contradicts a single ‘out of Africa’ origin
Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and…
Women take fewer risks because they think about losing more than men, research suggests
One difference between men and women has been well documented by economists, psychologists and biologists…
Cell death is essential to your health − an immunologist explains when cells decide to die with a bang or take their quiet leave
Living cells work better than dying cells, right? However, this is not always the case:…