A recent study shows there is no one gene that determines homosexuality, but confusion still lingers on the predictive power of our genetic constitution. Far more interrogation is needed before the...

The real issue raised is not about brain transplants or sci-fi fantasies of reanimation of corpses. It is about how we define life and death

The simplistic portrait masks a mind-bendingly complex reality  

Well-publicised comments from a former researcher at CERN show the barriers and prejudice women still face

Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have used “CRISPR technology” to such an end. We can only hope for the health of the two children

Autonomous vehicles force us to confront profound philosophical questions 

Italian astronomers have detected a shallow body of liquid water beneath the planet’s South Polar ice cap

With only two living females, the Northern white rhino is functionally extinct. Now, scientists are attempting to use assisted reproductive technology to save it

There’s a taste of the sublime in the photograph of this extrasolar world

Earlier this year Prospect science writer Philip Ball had his own “mini-brain” grown in a laboratory. Researchers now plan to put the method to different use, and in doing so learn more about an...