Why do my fingers go wrinkly in the bath?
Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear evolutionary biologist Tom Smulders explain.
Tribeca: In "Act One," Ella Beatty and Ari Graynor play a formidable (and formative) acting student and teacher. As always, Takal pulled from real life (and real feelings). For their first interview, ...
Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear evolutionary biologist Tom Smulders explain.
Tony Abbott, the Liberals’ new activist federal president, is preparing to convene meetings around the country in an effort to drum up membership and support for the struggling party. After the Newspo...
A vaccine designed entirely by AI has been tested in people for the first time.
Cookies, traybakes and pizza were very popular, and daily specials and fruit were not.
Abolishing NHS England sounds like a tidy fix. But the legal changes buried in the health bill could make the NHS more vulnerable than ever.
Most constipation is harmless. In rare cases, the colon can become dangerously enlarged. Here is what you need to know.
The bill treats a complex cluster of biological traits as if it were one settled thing, and ties legal meaning to the pretence.
A new database includes more than 850 dissertations and theses, spanning everything from baseball slang and cigarette smoking to postage stamps and ballpark organs.
The risk to firefighters isn’t just from breathing wildfire smoke – it’s also in the chemicals that get on their clothes and filter through to their skin.
Florida’s current approach to insurance is forcing those who can least afford it to bear the cost of the climate crisis. But different approaches are available.
Observing how grown-ups operate provides children with information on how they can shape their worlds to get what they want and avoid what they don’t want.
Data science and machine learning algorithms can help us form probabilistic forecasts of things like sporting events.
Surveys in the Gulf kingdom point at ongoing support for the US-Saudi alliance.
The war is increasingly becoming a public humiliation for Russia.
Confronted by higher prices for everyday products, US households are spending more in total.