Overmatter

Everyone warned me. I can't say I wasn't told. But motherhood is far more work than I'd imagined. So, in the last few months I...

Natasha Loder is on maternity leave.

ALMOST two years ago, SpaceShipOne became the first privately-built vehicle to travel into space. Although the X-15 did something similar fo...

Is marijuana medically useful? Many people, from patients to doctors and scientists think so. The US Food and Drug Administration appears to...

At the end of March, a new bathroom cleaning product called MagicNano was released onto the German market. Within only a few days, almost 80...

This important story about a drug trial that went wrong in London has almost been buried by the alarm over a single case of H5N1 in a swan i...

In this week’s science section we follow the fight between the journal Nature and the encyclopedia Britannica. The argument is about a compa...