Scientists have found new chemistry that could hint at the origins of Life on Earth, and in turn, our ancestry.

From the origin of life through to the development of language and culture, Charlotte Mykura explores the rise of human beings

Why studying our microbial friends may reveal how and why we age

In 2000, the human genome, a manuscript containing all the genes that make us human, was completed at a cost of $3 billion dollars. At a cost of nearly $1 a letter, this makes it the costliest script ever bought (its worthiest competitor being Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’, sold for $11.5 million). What, apart from […]