Before we ventured into space in 1961, we sent fruit flies, dogs and chimps to pave the way. This is their story ...

Ancient Mesopotamians had a profound love of beer: a beverage they found celebratory, intoxicating and strangely erotic ...

A Bible, a piece of wood, a song – a poignant portrait of the everyday family keepsakes that can bridge generations ...

Our culture works hard to keep sex and death separate but recharging the libido might provide the release that grief needs ...

Pau Cin Hau dreamt of an alphabet for a language that had never been written down. So began the religion of Laipianism ...

Mapping a fruit fly’s multitudinous neural pathways is a promising step towards a better understanding of the human brain ...

Like ‘the property room of an opera house of a vanished civilisation’: the first thrilling glimpse inside Tutankhamun’s tomb ...