Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Indian-origin historian Sunil Amrith wins British Academy Book Prize for 'The Burning Earth', his latest work on ...

A genome-wide analysis has identified genetic variants that have different effects on human growth and metabolic traits depending on their parental origin. Often, the same variant will push traits in ...

The Walking Dead' universe is far from done even after 15 years on TV, with unexplored continents making for more ...

A mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground is actually of ancient Mediterranean origin, genetic ...