Laughter feels deeply human. It appears in conversations, family gatherings, awkward moments and bursts of joy.

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

Catchy rhythms like the tresillo are examples of how our musical perception and preference negotiate between simplicity and ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

SA’s Constitution is distinctive because it begins from the person. It does not say that dignity belongs only to citizens, ...

Incredibly, almost three-quarters of us don't realise that regular gifts made from spare income can fall immediately outside the inheritance tax net.

BENGALURU: For decades, scientists trying to understand the Martian surface have relied largely on models that treat the planet as if it were relatively flat. These models have helped explain how ...

Giving cash gifts to loved ones, be it friends or family, is something many want to do, especially later in life. But the rules around taxes on them can be complex.

Thousands more families face being drawn into the inheritance tax (IHT) net due to the long-term freeze on thresholds and plans to bring unused pensions into estates from next April. Ian Dyall, head ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. “Epigenetic” marks — chemical modifications to DNA that don’t change the DNA ...

Genetic information in the DNA and modifications, such as DNA methylation, define the epigenetic landscape and phenotype and show both Mendelian and non-Mendelian heredity. Scientists have long known ...