Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Each of these is a “genus”, the rank just above a ...

The family of Jason Arday, the academic found dead on Friday following his resignation from the University of Cambridge amid plagiarism allegations, has described him as a “gentle man” who had faced ...

Massive genomic newborn-screening studies are under way all over the globe. But questions about scalability, feasibility and ...