Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity
Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of…
There are 750 unidentified human remains in Australia. Could your DNA help solve one of these cold cases?
Yesterday it was announced the Australian Federal Police (AFP) National DNA Program for Unidentified and…
Discovery of half-a-million-year-old wooden structure shows we’re wrong to underestimate our ancient relatives
To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the…
Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?
In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk…
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…