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 ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules of genetics. Researchers discovered hundreds of cases where these chemical ...

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 ...

The generation with the least wealth is the most committed to leaving some behind, and the reason why flips conventional wisdom about how legacy planning actually works. See the generational breakdown ...

In the coming years, more and more families will be impacted by Inheritance Tax changes. Some rules are changing, while others are staying frozen, meaning that more people could unintentionally fall ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

The Phlegraean Fields volcanic complex, located beneath the metropolitan area of Naples—a city of 900,000 inhabitants in Italy—has been rising increasingly since 2005, accompanied by a growing number ...

As impressive as the 3D printing process is, it can also be a bit time consuming. You are creating something out of nothing after all, and your printer needs to dispense and layer every square inch of ...

Karan Mahajan’s new novel, “The Complex,” tracks the fortunes of a political family in a rapidly changing India. By Jonathan Dee Jonathan Dee is the author of eight novels, most recently “Sugar Street ...

Researchers have investigated the communication between two insect species, and what they discovered seems straight out of Tarzan. Some butterfly caterpillars vibrate in an unexpectedly complex ...

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 ...