4+ hour, 36+ min ago  (316+ words) Q: Which Hollywood leading man's middle name is Tiffany? If you don't know Turi King from the BBC show DNA Family Secrets, which she presents alongside Stacey Dooley, you will know her as the geneticist who helped to identify the crook-backed…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (760+ words) It is easy to forget how improbable you are. Four billion years ago, Earth was a barren planet. Its oceans contained simple carbon-based chemicals, but nothing that could grow or adapt. Then, somehow, chemistry performed a remarkable trick: a molecule…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (817+ words) The Times What's more important: intimacy or sex? An evolutionary biologist knows After your parents have explained the birds and the bees to you, sex begins to make sense. Like all living things, humans mate with each other to produce…...