It was the world’s first murder. The ape-man exultantly threw his club (actually the leg bone of a zebra) into the air, and, as it spun, it morphed into an orbiting space station. In this stunning ...

THIS book is the outcome of a lifetime of biological reflection and investigation, and will be read with much interest. The author, who left Edinburgh for Philadelphia many years ago, was early ...

We tend to think of evolution as a one-way process: simpler beings gradually advancing to become more sophisticated lifeforms ...

Some chemicals create environmental problems; others, fortunately, can help clean them up. Chemists from Yale University and their colleagues have developed an electrochemical catalyst and membrane ...

Since the discovery of the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) phenomenon in double-stranded DNA, where spin electrons can be extracted and utilized by chiral compounds with a preferred spin ...