Strange Days: Science

The determined deniers who resist the weight of evidence and exclude expert opinion from their world-view

Will eating meat, having sex standing up or tying a ribbon round a spoon influence the gender of your child?

We are one-twelth virus - is this "junk DNA" as useless as it seems?

Hoping to improve society by changing our breeding habits has long been a controversial notion

For all Henny Penny's fears that the sky is falling, there really is a threat from the heavens

Seafarers’ tales of the “Ninth Wave” have long been dismissed as impossible by scientists. No longer.

Modern inventions constantly break new ground – but sometimes they merely rediscover the lost knowledge of older civilisations. David Hambling builds a case for the ancient construction trade.