A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang.

The discovery comes from studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), light emitted when the Universe was just 400,000 years old.

Their model may help explain why we experience time moving in a straight line from yesterday into tomorrow.

Am I the only person who doesn’t want to know? I really do not.

When schoolchildren pick a musical instrument to learn, they are too often influenced by gender stereotypes, says a report. So why don’t boys like the flute or girls play the guitar?