Researchers from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium set up an experiment that searched two million variable locations known as SNPs in the DNA of 101,069 people for variants that appeared to be linked to educational attainment. They...

PROMETHEUS, the mythological figure who stole fire from the gods, was punished for this theft by being bound to a rock. Each day, an eagle swept down and fed on his liver, which then grew back to be eaten again the next day.

Modern scientists...

HAVING missed last Friday’s flyby of asteroid 1998 QE2, I started searching for footage of the event – and ended up with the “Geeks”.

No, I wasn’t captured and caged. So I didn’t have to hold out a bone to deceive a blind witch, like...

IT may soon become an offence punishable by law for any government Ministry, Department, or Agency to go out of the country to purchase satellite images for use in the country.

Chairman Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Prof. Robert...