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Women dressed in red are more sexually attractive to men as the colour transmits "powerful" messages about how interested they might be, scientists have found.
26 Feb 2012
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Orang-utans are the free-runners of the animal kingdom, according to scientists.
26 Feb 2012
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Physicists operating the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva may have to rethink their claim that particles can travel faster than the speed of light after a source suggested that a bad connection affected the measurements.
24 Feb 2012
Mario Campanelli is a Reader in physics at University College London, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He has been member of the Icarus experiment, one of the two detectors located on the CERN-Gran Sasso beam. Here he explains why getting rid of relativity was always going to be problematic:
23 Feb 2012
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So it turns out that Einstein was right after all, notes Tom Chivers.
23 Feb 2012
| CommentsThe more you fear a spider the bigger it will appear to be, according to new research.
23 Feb 2012
Nobel winning scientist James Watson will talk at 25th Hay Festival with novelist Ian McEwan.
23 Feb 2012
| CommentsFears that the male Y chromosome could be wiped out within five million years have been undermined by new research showing the drop in genes has stabilised.
23 Feb 2012
| CommentsPhysicists who shocked the scientific world by claiming to have shown particles could move faster than the speed of light have admitted it was a mistake due to a faulty wire connection.
22 Feb 2012
Older mothers are five times more likely to suffer from depression after childbirth because of the anxiety they go through during pregnancy, a study suggests.
22 Feb 2012
| CommentsA watery planet with a thick, steamy atmosphere has left astronomers fumbling for their classification books.
22 Feb 2012
| CommentsA new species of legless amphibian has been discovered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India.
22 Feb 2012
| CommentsThe revival of a frozen Siberian flower paves the way for other species to return, says Matt Ridley.
21 Feb 2012
| Comments‘Will anything sensible be done?’ asked Gore Vidal about the drug war, 40 years ago. So far, there’s no sign, notes Allan Massie.
21 Feb 2012
| CommentsA group of orangutans who starred in "Born to be Wild" will get a special screening of the film as it reaches Indonesia.
21 Feb 2012
| CommentsA natural disaster that cost the lives of thousands of people was ignored in favour of a nuclear 'disaster’ that never was, argues Michael Hanlon.
21 Feb 2012
| CommentsChris Stringer on how a series of extraordinary finds has transformed our view of human history – and of the cousins with whom we long shared the planet .
21 Feb 2012
| CommentsModern children do not know the difference between astronomy and astrology because schools fail to give them a grounding in “rational thought”, the president of the Royal Society has warned.
21 Feb 2012
| CommentsIt was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years.
21 Feb 2012
| CommentsDolphins and whales are so intelligent that they should be recognised as "non-human persons" and given their own bill of rights, researchers claim.
21 Feb 2012
| CommentsLosing weight is twice as difficult as official guidelines claim, according to US research that will offer some reassurance to dieters struggling to shed the pounds.
21 Feb 2012
| CommentsHe cracked the Nazi Enigma code, helped end the Second World War and is recognised as the father of computer science.
20 Feb 2012
| CommentsThe vegan charity PETA has hailed the advent of the world's first test-tube hamburger - but the stem-cell patty looks unlikely to win the charity's $1m prize for the world's first in vitro meat product.
20 Feb 2012
| CommentsOn Feb 20, 1962, John Glenn, a 40-year-old Marine Corps colonel, became the first American to launch into orbit, finally evening up the score in a heated space race with the Soviet Union. Here's a look at Glenn's flight.
20 Feb 2012
| CommentsJohn Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, has launched an attack on the adiminstration of George W Bush after Nasa was forced to retire the space shuttles last year.
20 Feb 2012
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