She has gone the full Bernard Bresslaw. A horrible year in office has tarred Rachel Reeves’s voice. It is deeper, more adenoidal. In her conference speech she kept honking: ‘Don’t tell me there is no ...

Dogs do it, cats do it, deer do it – in fact, many species of mammals can swivel their ears to direct their hearing. Humans lost this ability about 25 million years ago, but according to a new study, ...

The reanalysis of ancient human skulls unearthed in China might upend how we thought humans evolved. New research argues that the age of the skull suggests that the split between our lineage and that ...

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an icon and a great philosopher, who brought transformational reforms in the field of education in India. And so, remembering and honouring him, every year on the 5th ...

I almost died of rubella when I was 3. I was very weak and wouldn’t eat. My mother was frantic. The doctor prescribed mashed lima beans and I pulled through. I still keep lima beans in the freezer. It ...

“Plink!” (“Donk”? “Plonk”?) Spell it however you like: It’s the sound of sweet, sweet dopamine hitting your system—the sound effect that Microsoft’s Xbox gaming ecosystem has been using, for twenty ...

Catherine Benedict and Alexa Gomberg are close friends of Minh-Thi Nguyen. Both planned the Ride for Your Life Memorial Bike Ride and Rally in Boston last November, on the World Day of Remembrance for ...

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